Messaging app JusTalk has suffered a security lapse through which millions of private messages have been leaked online, despite its claims that the app is secure and encrypted.<\/p>\n
The company says both of its apps \u2014 JusTalk and JusTalk Kids \u2014 are end-to-end encrypted, with its website saying that not even the JusTalk team can access messaging data.<\/p>\n
However, TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong> that its claims are untrue after reviewing the leaked data.<\/p>\n According to the review, the leaked data included millions of user messages, both the sender and recipient’s phone numbers, time stamps, and call records.<\/p>\n It also included the locations of thousands of users in the US, UK, India, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and mainland China.<\/p>\n Data from a third app \u2014 JusTalk 2nd Phone \u2014 was also exposed in the leak.<\/p>\n JusTalk’s 2nd Phone app allows users to create an alternative, short-lived phone number to avoid sharing their actual number.<\/p>\n However, security researcher Anurag Sen<\/a><\/strong> found that the leaked data included both the app user’s generated and actual phone numbers.<\/p>\n Data including private messages and phone numbers have been leaked online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":453804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65677,50043,80054,80058,80056],"class_list":["post-453802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-anurag-sen","tag-data-leak","tag-justalk","tag-justalk-2nd-phone","tag-justalk-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453840,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453802\/revisions\/453840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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