THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF APPLE
Privacy and data security at risk?
Assessing recent threats to your sensitive information
BY ALEX SUMMERSBY
RECENT REPORTS WARN of new or underestimated data security threats. How real are the risks in each case?
> APP TRACKING DATA HACKED
“Thousands” of widely used apps, including Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal, and FlightRadar, are reportedly being exploited to collect location data on a vast scale, and some of this sensitive data has been stolen.
This was revealed in a data breach filing by Gravy Analytics, a location data broker that claims to track more than a billion devices daily around the world. It disclosed in January that a large set of historical location data, relating to millions of smartphones, has been acquired by hackers.