Anonymous video chat app leaks data on millions of users — more than 22 million records exposed, including 3…
- The breach directly granted access to 22 million session records and 3.47 million usernames and email addresses or similar identifiers
- The platform, which claims privacy and security as core tenets of its offerings, is often used for intimate or explicit conversations with strangers, making this security flaw a critical issue
- The leaks also contained sensitive metadata that can be tied back to users, including device details, gender, payment information, and geolocation-specific information such as IP addresses, country, and language
In what is being treated as a major cybersecurity lapse, the randomized video chat platform FTF Live may have unwittingly compromised millions of its users due to a misconfiguration.
The breach effectively exposed information from potentially as many as 3.47 million identifiable users across 22 million sessions, thanks to an openly accessible Kibana dashboard spotted by security researchers, which was subsequently disclosed to the company's owners.
A significant security lapse
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