Over 100 Chinese loan apps are leaking millions of users’ financial data

Jul19

by Sindy Cator on July 19, 2019 at 6:48 am

In China, over 100 loan apps are leaking their users’ private data, including contact details, financial information, and even location data. The information is contained in a database spanning 889 GB; it was discovered by the lead of antivirus review site SafetyDetective’s research team, Anurag Sen. Sen said that data leaked from over 4.6 million devices contributed to the database – and every time someone uses any of these apps, it gathers even more information. What’s more worrying is a bad actor can track someone’s live location through the database. t registers an entry of longitude and latitude every time a…