There is a blurry industry for those who want to monitor and spy families. Various Application Manufacturers app – sometimes referred to Stalkerware – For jealous partners who can use this application to access the phone call remotely.
However, even if this data case, the number of companies lost the large amount.
According to tally tally, scored Last new leaked data from Spyziethat is not long after Data data from cottpy and spappingAt least 24 stalkerware companies since 2017 are complained, or customer data leak and victim victims online. That’s not a typo: at least 24 stalker companies have been hacked or have significant data light in the past year. And four stalkerware companies hacked several times.
Spyzie, CoKSpy, and Spot is the first stalkerware company in 2025 accidentally. Operating two, photos, call logs, and personal logs of millions of exposed victims online, according to security researchers that find a bug that allows accessible bugs.
SpyZie Manufacturers are exposed to 518,643 unique email addresses of customers. In case of themspy, companies leaking 1.81 million mail customer’s email addresses, and email addresses of leak 880 leaked emails.167. Is the total over 3.2 million email addresses, after removal of duplicate addresses displayed in two violations, according to Troy Analysis of Troy Hunt, which opens the notice site I have pwnedSee rankings-.
In 2024, at least four great stalkerware hacks. The last stalkerware violation of 2024 is affected Spytech, a famous spyware manufacturer based on MinnesotaThose logged activities are exposed from your phone, tablet, and computers with your spyware. Previously, there is a violation in mSpy, one of the longest stalkerware applications, exposed Millions of customer support ticketswhich includes personal data millions of customers.
Before, a hacker that is unknown broke up to the US-based-based stalker server serverSee rankings-. Hackers then steal and leak the company’s internal data. They also lack the official website of PCTattletale with embarrassment to the company. Hackers called new techcrunch articles reported PCTattletale is used to monitor some computer checking in front In the US hotel chain.
As a result of this hack, leak and shame operations, founders of fleming fleming said he was dead Their company.
Spestory spyware applications like mSpy and pctattletale is often called “stalkerware” (or husband “because the company is often a solution to hold an illegal and unsolicious partner. And There are several court cases, Journalist Investigation and Domestic shelter survey That shows that stalking and monitoring online can cause real evil cases and violence.
And the reason hacker has repeatedly some of these companies.
Eva Galperin, Director of cyberkity in electronic Frontier Foundation and major researchers who have been investigated and stalkerware industry is “a soft target.”
“Those who open the company, may not be the most impressive of the quality of the product,” Galperin said to TechCrunch.
Given compromised history, it may be an understatement. And due to the lack of treatment to protect your own customers – and consequently the private data of thousands of useless victims – using this application twice no longer responsible. Stalker customers may violate the law, blame the partner with illegal spying, and, on top, puts data per person in danger.
History of Stalkerware Hacks
Down from the Stalkerware Breakage from 2017 when a group of hackers violation of US-based retina-x and in Flexispy based on Thailand back again. The two hack is revealed that the company has a 130,000 customer in the world.
At that time, the hacker – proudly – in charge of the real compromise says that the motivation should convey the industry considered toxic and disrespect.
“I want to burn him to the ground, and no one can be hidden,” said one of these hackers and tell the motherboard.
Refer to Flexispy, Healthcies enhancing: “I hope they will fall and have time to describe what you can do and give birth to the new form. But if he did, I will be there.”
Despite the hack, and the year of a negative general attention, Flexispy is still active now. They can not be called the retina-x.
The sizens that broke in the retina-x removed the server with operative crawl purposes. The company bounce again – and then hacked back a year laterSee rankings-. A few weeks after violating twice, Retina-x announces that it is deadSee rankings-.
Just a few days of the second retina budget x, MOBISEALTH HELL HOW HASTEStealing notes Gigabytes and businesses, as well as victims who are defined victims and proper GPS locations. Other Stalker Vendors, Indian spyhuman-basedInventing the same fate for several months later, with hackers steal text messages and calling the text metadata, which contains the referred to whom and when.
Week later, there was the first case of the accidentally accidentally light, instead of hack. FONE APPLICATIONS STORAGE S3 MBER A HOST UNLOVE ONLINEThat means something can view and download text messages, photos, audio recording, contacts, locations, login passwords and login information, Facebook messages, and more. All of these data stolen from the victims, most people who do not know that they are spilled, then only know the most sensitive personal data as well as on the internet for everything to see.
Other stalkerware companies have been used for years, must use data ‘and victim victims online is a family orbit, who left private data 281 gigabytes from private Protected only with a simple password found; mSpy, who leaked more than 2 million customer records In 2018; XNore, Sing Let any customers see more customer’s target datawhich includes chat messages, GPS coordinates, emails, photos, and more; Mobiispy, who leaves 25,000 audio recordings and 95,000 images On the server that you can access anyone; Kidguard, who has The server that is likely to leak the victim’s contents; PCTattletale, who may hack well Quoted screenshot version of Vers’ uploaded by real to an existing website to be accessible; and xnspy, the developer Left left and private keys in the application codeallow anyone to access the victim’s data; And now Spyzie, Cotting and SpyMessage now, photos, call logs, and other phone data, as well as customer’s email addresses, online.
As far as other stalkerware companies have been hacked, there is Copy9, who see A hacker steals data all targets of supervisionIncludes text and WhatsApp messages, record, photos, contacts, and browser history; Letmespy, the closed after violating hacker and expel the server; WebDeve Based on Brazil, who also got the server that is adjustedand Then hacked again; Ownsypy, which provides the back software for WebDeve, as well as compromised; Spyhide, who has vulnerability in the code that allows hackers access the back database and many years were stolen from about 60,000 victims; OOspy, is Rebra Spyhide, die twice; And the latest mSpy hack, which is not related to the previous leak.
Finally there is TheTruthSpy, a Stalkerware application networkthat holds a rude note because it has been hacked or has the least leaked data not three separate opportunitySee rankings-.
Hacked, but not humiliated
Of these 23 stalkerware companies, eight have been closed, according to Tally Tally precision.
In the first case and now unique, federal trade commission Prohibited Spyfone and exclusive executive, Scott ZuckermanFrom the supervision industry after the previous security delay that opens the victim’s data. Other stalker’s operation related to Zuckerman, called Spytrac, then die Following techcrtricigation investigations.
Call and highter, both other unknown companies have been compromised, Well off After a new york lawyer paved customer companies clearly for use of software to monitor illegal.
But the closing company does not mean it’s not forever. As with Spyhide and Spyfone, some owners and developers are at the end of the Stalkerware producer only rebranded.
“I think that this hack is doing that. He’s doing something, he doesn’t have teeth,” gallery said. “But if you think you hack the stalker company, so he will make it aloll, catch your name, it will not appear again, most of them are definitely not like that.”
“What happened often, if you can disable the stalker company, which is a stalkerware company like a fungus after the rain,” Added Gallerin.
There are some good news. In the report last year, Firmance Firm Malwarebytes said that Stalkerware Usage RejectsAccording to your own customers’ data with this type of software type. Also, Galperin reports see negative improvements from this application, with customers or customers that are complained not to be performed.
However, Galperin says that it may be good security companies to detect stalker as you used to, or stalker has moved from AITAGG and the Bluetooth’s tracking.
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Say not for stalkerware
Use spyware to monitor someone who loves is not just etistic, as well as illegal in most jurisdiction, because it is considered invalid supervision.
That has been a significant reasons not using stalkerware. Then there is a problem that the stalkerware manufacturers have proves the time and time again if they cannot keep data safely – no data containing customers or target.
In addition to counterparts and romantic partners, some people use the stalkerware application to monitor their children. While this type of use, at least in the United States, the law, does not mean using the stalker to Snoop on the phone calls illegal and not ettical.
Although defects, Gallery thinks that the old man does not have to spy on their children without telling and without their consent.
If parents do not tell your children and get forward, parents have to be far from insecure stalkerware applications and unreliable and use the built-in-the-built tracking tool Apple calls and tablets and Android Devices It is safer and operate.
Recap breaches and leaks
Here is a complete list of stalkerware companies that have been hacked or have a leaking sensitive data since 2017, in chronological order:
Updated on February 27, 2025, including Spyzie as the latest stalkerware app.
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