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The private email and phone numbers and contact info for more than 49 million Instagram Influencers was uncovered in an unprotected, unencrypted database hosted on Amazon Web Services. The Influencers, the social media term for accounts with many followers, include celebrities and International brands.
The popular WhatsApp free messaging app used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world to send free, encrypted communications to one another is appears to have a security flaw exploited by spyware created by an Israeli firm to gain access to the underlying smartphones on which it operates.
Data Breaches involving millions of consumers are becoming commonplace but last week two researchers uncovered a massive database of very detailed consumer records with no clear owner. Hosted on a Microsoft cloud server, the data deals with 80 million households headed by Americans over the age of 40.
