A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has learned. The breach reveals that SpyX and two other related mobile apps had records on almost 2 million people at the time of the breach, including thousands of Apple users.
The data breach dates back to June 2024 but had not been previously reported, and there is no indication that SpyX’s operators ever notified its customers or those targeted by the spyware. The SpyX family of mobile spyware is now, by TechCrunch researchers count, the 25th mobile surveillance operation since 2017 known to have experienced a data breach, or otherwise spilled or exposed their victims’ or users’ data, showing that the consumer-grade spyware industry continues to proliferate and put people’s private data at risk.
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