Security News > 2020 > March > Confessions app Whisper spills almost a billion records

Researchers who uncovered a data exposure from mobile app Whisper earlier this week have released more details about the incident.

Whisper is an app from MediaLab, a mobile app company that owns a host of other apps including the popular messaging service Kik.

The Washington Post broke the story about the app on Monday 10 March, having worked with the researchers.

The records didn't include real names, but did divulge their stated age, gender, ethnicity, home town, and nickname, the story said, adding that it also divulged access to groups that included intimate confessions.

The referenced data is all accessible to users from public API's [sic] exposed within the app.

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