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| Has the chat app that Trump supporters relied on been hacked? |
A tweet surfaced on Twitter last week claiming that the social app Talk has become increasingly popular among supporters of Donald Trump since the last US election - a screenshot from the internet app's database shows that it has actually happened. Hacked after it was hacked.
But the CEO of the app strongly denied the allegations, but rumors are still circulating online as some researchers have confirmed that the app has been hacked while others insist that the app has bugs. Of security. We'll soon find out and with the constant clash of news and rumors, everyone wants to know: Has the app been hacked?
What are the details of a Talking App Hacker?
After the rapid spread of the tweets on Twitter, rumors of (now pent-up) tweets by data scientist Kevin Abush multiplied, prompting several journalists and cybersecurity professionals to carefully investigate these hacking allegations and evidence. 'the support.
Their report shows that the database shown with the image is already associated with the app, but in fact, it's the official WordPress log of the Talking app blog that was hacked in July of last year and the company fixed the vulnerability. The report states that the blog does not contain user data.
However, a separate security vulnerability allegedly resulted in the loss of more than 6.3 GB of application user data. The allegations came from several security researchers on Twitter including: (Jackie Singh), Presidential Network Security Campaign Manager for Joe Biden, and (John) Jackson, an application security engineer at Shutterstock.
These allegations came in conjunction with the announcement of the intention to disclose their findings in the future, and it is clear that the experts decided that the immediate problem may not be related to the hack. At the same time, they confirmed the existence of a so-called security vulnerability in the application. .
There is still no conclusive evidence that the app can be hacked, but no social media platform is 100% reliable because customer data has become the most important thing for everyone. Today companies and security experts always warn us that the company is doing this. Both user data are not managed. While the company is good at protecting data security, data can be disclosed in a number of ways, including: B. Via a third-party server with poor security.
It should be noted that Talk is a social media app that uses my words (freedom of speech) as their logo. It became widespread at the start of the US presidential election this year because it attracted many users to find that this was the place to post their deleted comments on Twitter and Facebook because they were unreliable or as misinformation.