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Security researcher discovers hotspot finder app with leaks

TechXplore - Tue 23 Apr 19

Another day, another app mishap story, and it is in the Ouch range. This one is called WiFi Finder.

Popular Hotspot Finder App Exposed Millions Of WiFi Passwords

Ubergizmo - Tue 23 Apr 19

If you’re on the go and you’d prefer connecting to a WiFi network instead of relying on cellular connection, there are apps out there that help you locate a WiFi hotspot. In fact, ...

Facepalm: This Hotspot Finder App Has Leaked 2 Million Wi-Fi Network Passwords

HotHardware - Mon 22 Apr 19

It’s becoming harder to know which apps to trust these days, and that’s readily apparent with the disclosure of a vulnerability in the popular Android app “Wi-Fi Finder.” The purpose ...

'WiFi Finder' app left over 2 million network passwords exposed

Techspot - Mon 22 Apr 19

The app simply named “WiFi Finder” searches for nearby hotspots. Users could upload public hotspots or even their own router passwords to the app’s database to allow other users to find ...

Popular hotspot finder app exposed 2 MILLION WiFi network passwords, researchers find

Daily Mail - Mon 22 Apr 19

A security researcher found that a popular WiFi hotspot app was storing passwords for private networks on an unsecured database. The app has been downloaded by thousands of users.

If You Used This App, the Password of the Private WiFi Networks You Connected to Leaked Online

Gizmodo - Mon 22 Apr 19

Thousands of users of an app called WiFi Finder, the stated purpose of which is, obviously, to locate and provide credentials for public WiFi hotspots, inadvertently submitted their own home ...

A hotspot finder app exposed 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords

TechCrunch - Mon 22 Apr 19

A popular hotspot finder app for Android exposed the Wi-Fi network passwords for more than two million networks. The app, downloaded by thousands of users, allowed anyone to search for Wi-Fi ...