Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is involved in the App Location Data Breach Investigation, regarding a breach that impacted an undetermined number of individuals and their personal information.
Last week a hacker claimed to have cracked into Gravy Analytics. This company provides real time location based advertising bidding for marketers. The full extent of the breach was recently revealed.
If you have used any apps on your phone with location based services, chances are that your real time location information was taken by the hacker. This includes information about your phone as well as your most visited locations such as your home and workplace.
TechCrunch has explained more about how this process works, with their reporter Zach Whittaker explaining that “[a]s a byproduct of this process, any advertiser that bids — or anyone closely monitoring these auctions — can also access that trove of so-called ‘bidstream’ data containing device information. Data brokers, including those who sell to governments, can combine that collected information with other data about those individuals from other sources to paint a detailed picture of someone’s life and whereabouts.”
Wired has reported that the list of apps impacted by the app location data breach includes:
Tinder and Grindr; massive games such as Candy Crush, Temple Run, Subway Surfers, and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells; transit app Moovit; My Period Calendar & Tracker, a period-tracking app with more than 10 million downloads; popular fitness app MyFitnessPal; social network Tumblr; Yahoo’s email client; Microsoft’s 365 office app; and flight tracker Flightradar24. The list also mentions multiple religious-focused apps such as Muslim prayer and Christian Bible apps, various pregnancy trackers…
App Location Data Breach
Gravy Analytics is still reacting to the situation which is changing in real time. All of the information stolen is likely valuable and dangerous to affected victims. As is likely to be the case with the Gravy Analytics and app location data breach, in previous cyberattacks, victims of data theft have noticed identity theft attempts ranging from fraudulent charges on bank accounts or credit cards, to unauthorized credit card applications, to medical services or government services ordered in their name, to their information being posted on the dark web, to a massive uptick in the number of spam text messages, calls and emails received.
Are you concerned that you might be affected by the Gravy Analytics and app location data breach?
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The lawyers at Migliaccio & Rathod LLP have years of experience in class action litigation against large corporations, including in cases involving data breaches such as this. More information about our current cases and investigations is available on our blog.