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    Teen phone tracking app exposed thousands of Apple accounts

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    Jon Fingas
    Jon Fingas
    05.20.2018

    Parents understandably pour a lot of trust into apps that monitor their kids' activity. That makes it all the more painful when there's a lapse in security, and that's unfortunately the case today. Security researcher Robert Wiggins discovered that TeenSafe, a mobile app that lets parents track teens' locations and text messaging habits, left the data thousands of accounts exposed on two Amazon servers. One of them held nothing but test data, but the other included kids' Apple ID email addresses and passwords, not to mention the email addresses of the parents.