Family tracking app Family Locator has leaked the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users after Australian developer React Apps left a server exposed. The data was exposed by an anonymous user on Reddit who said he had found it while looking for information about his missing daughter. The database, which was left exposed without a password for several weeks, was accessed by security researcher and GDI Foundation member Sanyam Jain.
Family tracking app Family Locator has leaked the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users after Australian developer React Apps left a server exposed. The database was taken offline after Microsoft, which hosted the data on the Azure cloud, was told of the problem and asked to contact the developer, which has not yet acknowledged the problem. The database, which was left exposed without a password for several weeks, was accessed by security researcher and GDI Foundation member Sanyam Jain.