Researchers found that an official Vatican prayer app exposed the personal information of more than 700,000 users worldwide through an insecure configuration. The exposed data included details that can identify individuals and tie them to their use of the app. Faith and health apps are sensitive because the mere fact of using them can be revealing, and religious affiliation is a protected category in many jurisdictions, so even a modest data set carries outsized risk for the people in it. The exposure stemmed from the way the app's backend was set up rather than a sophisticated intrusion, a recurring pattern in mobile app data leaks where access controls are misconfigured.
Pitney Bowes customer and employee data was leaked publicly after the company refused to pay ShinyHunters' extortion demand. Have I Been Pwned added the breach yesterday with 8.2 million unique email addresses, plus names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. A subset includes Pitney Bowes employee records with job titles - a useful starter pack for highly-targeted phishing against named staff. The data came from a misconfigured Salesforce Experience Cloud 'Guest User' permission that let unauthenticated visitors query CRM records directly. ShinyHunters had posted Pitney Bowes on its leak site April 18 with a three-day deadline.
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