Whisper, a popular social app that lets people anonymously post confessions and secrets, reportedly left a database exposed that tied messages to a user’s age, location and other details. Records for millions of messages were viewable to anyone on a database that was open to the public internet, according to a report Tuesday from The Washington Post.
The database didn’t contain real names but tied anonymous whispers to “a user’s stated age, ethnicity, gender, hometown, nickname and any membership in groups, many of which are devoted to sexual confessions and discussion of sexual orientation and desires,” according to the Post. The data also reportedly included location coordinates for a person’s most recent whisper.
Full article: https://www.cnet.com/news/whisper-app-exposed-data-that-ties-millions-of-secrets-to-users-personal-info-report-says/