Personal info of 31 million people leaked by popular virtual keyboard Ai.type

[spaceoctopus]

Data belonging to 31 million users of the popular smartphone virtual keyboard, Ai.type , has leaked online after the developer failed to properly secure the app’s database.

Ai.type is a freemium virtual keyboard that runs on IOS and Android, with the bulk of the users on Android. According to the developers, Ai.type can learn the user’s writing style, and even auto-insert emoji.

 

[tim one]

Among the thousands of useless apps, the keyboard is the most useless and sometimes harmful of them.
What is the reason I should switch to a third-party keyboard? Some emoticons or stupid functions...?
Better to use the default one without looking for unnecessary trouble!

 

[Daljeet]

Ai type need to secure their website first and default keyboard is simple and secure. Ai type comes with many customization's and support many languages that's why people like it. I think most android user data leaked and see how many peoples switch back to default keyboard after Go keyboard and now Ai type.

 

[Handsome Recluse]

What is the reason I should switch to a third-party keyboard?

Maybe to make it look like Windows Phone to amaze your friends
or type on this

to amaze your friends and to troll them when they want to use your phone.

 

[tim one]

Maybe to make it look like Windows Phone to amaze your friends or type on this
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to amaze your friends and to troll them when they want to use your phone.

Yeah! That's a honeypot for some users...

 

[HarborFront]

Actually,the worry part is why a company making virtual keyboard is collecting so much customer personal information

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However, while the exposure of the 577GB MongoDB database indicated poor security practice, researchers at Kromtech Security Center were even more shocked to see the breadth of information collected by the firm.

It included phone numbers, full names, device name and model, mobile network, SMS number, IMSI and IMEI numbers, email addresses, country of residence, social media links and location data for each customer.

“When researchers installed Ai.Type they were shocked to discover that users must allow ‘Full Access’ to all of their data stored on the testing iPhone, including all keyboard data past and present,” explained Kromtech chief communications officer, Bob Diachenko.

“It raises the question of why would a keyboard and emoji application need to gather the entire data of the user’s phone or tablet? Based on the leaked database they appear to collect everything from contacts to keystrokes. This is a shocking amount of information on their users who assume they are getting a simple keyboard application.”

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