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THE PHONE MONITORING APP LETMESPY DISCLOSED A DATA BREACH

June 29, 2023  By Pierluigi Paganini




ANDROID APP LETMESPY DISCLOSED A SECURITY BREACH, SENSITIVE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH
THOUSANDS OF ANDROID USERS WERE EXPOSED.

The phone monitoring app LetMeSpy disclosed a security breach, threat actors
have stolen sensitive data associated with thousands of Android users, including
messages, locations, call logs, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers.

According to a notice published by the company, the security incident took place
on June 21, 2023.


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The LetMeSpy app is developed by the company Radeal and is sold as a parental
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Customers can use the app by paying a monthly subscription of $6 for a standard
license or $12 for a Pro license.

“As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to e-mail addresses,
telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts,” reads a
statement published by the company.

The company immediately launched an investigation into the incident and notified
law enforcement and data protection watchdogs.

The news of the data breach was first reported by the Polish security research
blog Niebezpiecznik, which also confirmed that the threat actors behind the
attack claimed to have seized the domain associated with the spyware.

“It’s not clear who is behind the LetMeSpy hack or their motives. The hacker
intimated that they deleted LetMeSpy’s databases stored on the server. A copy of
the hacked database also appeared online later the same day.” reported
TechCrunch. “DDoSecrets, a nonprofit transparency collective that indexes leaked
datasets in the public interest, obtained a copy of the hacked LetMeSpy data and
shared it with TechCrunch. DDoSecrets said it was limiting the distribution of
the data to journalists and researchers, given the amount of personally
identifiable information in the cache.”

According to TechCrunch, the leaked data exposed in the attack are dating back
to 2013 and include data related to at least 13,000 compromised devices

Most of the victims, whose data is in the database, are located in the U.S.,
India, and Africa.

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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
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