A Japanese smartphone app for Android-
powered devices has reportedly leaked the
personal data of some 760,000 users on the
internet. The address book application, Zenkoku
Denwacho (“Nationwide Address Book”),
was reported to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police
Department on Saturday by NetAgent Co., an
information security company, for the breach
of user privacy. The application’s developer
has stated that the leak was only temporary,
and the data has already been deleted, however
the Tokyo police say they are still planning an
investigation.
The latest version of the application has been
available for free on Google’s Android
platform since September. Its main function is
to allow users to search for information that
is published in telephone companies address
books, like those from Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corp., for example. The application
also allows for the exchanging of personal data
between users, like the names, addresses, and
phone numbers in their personal address books,
through a rented server.
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Android app releases 760,000 users’s personal data, contacts online - The Japan Daily Press
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