Tuesday, November 5

These Tweets Reveal How “India’s Two Leading Parties” Data Can be Easily Hack

congress and bjp fight over app data leak

CleverTap, a five-year-old US-based startup founded by three Indians is facing the heat after a pseudonymous researcher alleged that Indian PM Modi’s Namo app was disclosing private information like name, email, mobile number, device information, and location, to servers controlled by the firm without the user’s consent.

The hacker & researcher known as Elliot Alderson on twitter, in a series of tweets, pointed the privacy lapses in the NaMO App and alleged that mobile marketing platform CleverTap was the beneficiary of the data transfer.

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Now the Second part of the story includes the opposition party of India “The Indian National Congress” – 

The same hacker Mr. Elliot Alderson has also pointed out that the opposition party in India “Congress” also revealed its data and sent them to a Singapore server. In the series of his tweets, he disclosed that the data encryption was not up to the level and can be easily hacked or breached,

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Congress party deleted its app before leveling the charges against the governing party of India “BJP”. The latter, however, said the permissions required are all contextual and cause-specific and that the data is being used for analytics through third-party service. займ онлайн с 18 лет на картузайм финансзайм на киви без отказов займ срочно на кивизайм бесплатнозайм от частного лица на карту