Personal Data Leak: Homegrown Social Media App Slick Exposed Users’ Data, Including Minors

Homegrown social media app Slick has reportedly uncovered private knowledge of youngsters, amongst different customers of the platform, on the net.

According to TechCrunch, an inside Slick database with full names, cell numbers, dates of delivery, and profile footage of customers was “left uncovered on-line and not using a password.”

The internal database contained entries of over 153,000 Slick users.

The Bengaluru-based app allows school and college students to connect and talk about their friends anonymously.

Launched in November last year by former Unacademy executive Archit Nanda, Slick is available on both Android and iOS app stores.

Nanda was also Co-founder and CEO of crypto platform CoinMint.

Earlier this month, he announced on Twitter that Slick has crossed 100,000 downloads.

“100k @slick_hq. Rockstars behind the milestone,” he posted together with a picture.

According to the TechCrunch report, cyber-security researcher Anurag Sen from CloudDefense.ai discovered the uncovered Slick database.

Sen additionally alerted pc emergency response group CERT-In.

Slick later fastened the publicity and the database is now not obtainable on-line.

According to the cyber-security researcher, it was unclear if the Slick knowledge has been compromised because it was uncovered on-line in December.

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