Surprise, surprise—your data may be compromised. A top private mobile security company called Zimperium analyzed over 1.3 million apps on both iOS and Android-running systems, and the results were rather disturbing. Nearly 84,000 Android apps and 47,000 iOS apps were found using public rather than private servers, and 14% of those were dangerously misconfigured, exposing all kinds of sensitive information to the world.
As Wired points out, this kind of data leaking doesn’t have to be intentional by any means. All it takes is to cut a couple of corners in the configuration process and server routing, and all kinds of personal data is exposed for the taking.
