If you use the keyboard app developed by Ai.Type, your personal information has probably been leaked, as security researchers have discovered that the company it implicitly collects data and stores it in a MongoDB database.
Security company Kromtech estimates that sensitive data belonging to about 31 million users is included in this database, and entries have been found to show that the keyboard application recorded almost every keystroke, whether it was plain text or passwords.
While the app developer says it does not collect information from password fields and that all data is encrypted, ZDNet reveals that the database discovered by Kromtech included everything from full usernames, email addresses, geographic location, device, model, IMEI, and Android versions. Also included is more personal information collected from social media, such as birth dates, gender, profile photos, contacts and passwords.
Η Kromtech it says the database is 577GB and was exposed to the dianetwork. The database was freely available to anyone with an Internet connection, and contains at least 31.293.959 records.
There are 6.435.813 entries with information gathered from contact lists, including phone numbers and names. The security company estimates that the keyboard application has stored more than 373 millions of records on the servers of the company that developed it.
In most cases, third-party keyboard applications require full access to Android data, and Google's operating system warns that this could cause problems.
Ai.Type's keyboard app is also available for iPhone and also requires full access, but it's currently unclear if they leaked information from Apple device users or only those using Android.
