Thousands and thousands of applications for Android and iOS platforms, including Candy Crush, Tinder, and MyFitnessPal, has been used to collect the data of the geographical location of the user. The discovery was made by chance, after the release of some of the files stolen from the Gravy Analytics by the perpetrators of the unknown cyber. This information is also used for the ads to be personalized.
Thousands and thousands of applications, spy on the user
Cyber criminals cyber stole a lot of data from the servers of the Gravy Analytics (website is still offline) last week. Among the information stolen are the ones that show the movement of phones, intelligent, and are accordingly of their respective owners.
Typically, the advertisers are paying, and how to enter the code, and the detection of the location in the app. In lieu of this, a lot of companies have got this information through the bid in real-time, which is a system that allows you to make the bids and offers in real time and to display advertisements within the application. Side effects is that it is the mediator's data, such as Gravy Analytics, you can take part in the process of picking the location of the device, without the knowledge of the developers).
The information stolen from the company in the u.s., include the millions of koordinata geographical location of the phone within the United States, Europe, and Russia. Some of them are listed, with the names of the interfaces, including the Candy Crash, Tinder, MyFitnessPal, Moovit, Yahoo Mail, Tumblr, and Microsoft Outlook (the complete list is available here).
Gravy Analytics to gather location data from a variety of sources, and sells them to private companies, or through a subsidiary, to its Venntel, under the government of the united states, including the ICE (Immigration and the Enforcement of the Customs service), CBP (Protection Customs and Border), the IRS (the Service, the Internal Revenue). The FBI and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration).
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