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  • MissGutsy@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 months ago

    Cybernews researchers have found that BDSM People, CHICA, TRANSLOVE, PINK, and BRISH apps had publicly accessible secrets published together with the apps’ code.

    All of the affected apps are developed by M.A.D Mobile Apps Developers Limited. Their identical architecture explains why the same type of sensitive data was exposed.

    What secrets were leaked?

    • API Key
    • Client ID
    • Google App ID
    • Project ID
    • Reversed Client ID
    • Storage Bucket
    • GAD Application Identifier
    • Database URL

    […] threat actors can easily abuse them to gain access to systems. In this case, the most dangerous of leaked secrets granted access to user photos located in Google Cloud Storage buckets, which had no passwords set up.

    In total, nearly 1.5 million user-uploaded images, including profile photos, public posts, profile verification images, photos removed for rule violations, and private photos sent through direct messages, were left publicly accessible to anyone.

    So the devs were inexperienced in secure architectures and put a bunch of stuff on the client which should probably have been on the server side. This leaves anyone open to just use their API to access every picture they have on their servers. They then made multiple dating apps with this faulty infrastructure by copy-pasting it everywhere.

    I hope they are registered in a country with strong data privacy laws, so they have to feel the consequences of their mismanagement


  • Not that directly, but saying they have “zero worth” might be against GG Article 1

    Human dignity is inviolable

    Pretty sure dehumanizing can be prosecuted under this, even if its rather tame. Also there have been some laws over the last few years that criminalize violent speech on the internet and that give people the ability to report comments directly to agencies. These might make it quite dangerous for the instance to keep up these comments.

    I assure you, German leftist often say way more intense stuff on a daily basis, but not on publicly hosted servers