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Data-slurping keyboard app makes Mongo mistake with user data

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Sleep-walking to the Data-Apocalypse one leak at a time

'No sensitive data there' - Who are they trying to kid? - Nothing to see here, except the sheer delusion of App-makers and Cloud peddlers everywhere:

"MongoDB database ... found unsecured online containing 577GB of data collected by predictive keyboard app AI.type from its over 31 million users. This included the name, email address and location, along with IMSI and IMEI numbers, IP address, phone spec and OS details, and links to user's social media profiles and photos. It also slurped 373 million names and phone numbers from the contacts of over six million users."

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