Provider Mobile Spyware Hacked, Customer Data Leaked

Attackers have managed at a popular provider of mobile spyware to break into and subsequently stolen and put online database with customer data. The software in question is mSpy that own words almost 2 million users have.

According to the attackers in the hack, which is unknown how that occurred, captured the data of more than 400,000 people.IT journalist Brian Krebs , however, that the actual number of customers affected can not be determined. However, concerns sensitive information such as emails, text messages, pay and location data, passwords, Apple ID, photos and calendar data.In total, there were hundreds of gigabytes of data stolen.

Through mSpy users can use the phone a different monitors, such as incoming and outgoing calls, text messages, emails, GPS location, chat conversations, Internet and can access the address book and calendar are obtained. For this purpose it is required that the user has physical access to the device of the other, so that the mSpy can be installed. The software itself has not yet responded to the burglary.

Spyware provider sells smartphones with spyware

A provider of a spyware program for smartphones nowadays also offers aircraft where the spyware already installed in advance. mSpy, the company name, defines its own software as a "powerful monitoring solution" that all activities of the user to follow.

Thus, it is possible to listen in on phone calls to block calls them to read, chat conversations view, browsing history to lock the device, calendar, and view, store, read emails and photos and videos to view keystrokes address book . Spyware which '100% undetectable "would be had to still first be installed. Device

For the cases where this is not possible or too much work, in the shop of mSpy now advance infected devices available.It is a 5 Nexus, Apple iPhone 5S, HTC One and Galaxy S4, including annual subscription to the spyware. According mSpy is to use the spyware is legal, as long as the target in advance is informed and gives consent.

In a Forbes Article highlighting the software, the company founder Andrei Shimanovich, addressing that issue, is quoted as saying:

It is the same question with the gun producer. If you go out and buy a gun and go shoot someone, no one will go after the gun producer. People who shoot someone will be responsible for this. Same thing for mSpy. We just provide the services which can solve certain tasks regarding parents and teenagers.