Geolocation information attached to many users’ last submitted post pointed back to specific schools, residential neighbourhoods, workplaces, and international military bases, including a secure US military missile facility.Īlthough real names were not revealed, the information that was exposed could have lead to an individual being identified or even blackmailed.
The breach, first reported by the Washington Post (WP), also included 1.3 million records involving users who had listed their age as young as 15. Users’ confessions, fetishes, ages, ethnicity, genders, and location data were exposed online. Whisper, which proclaimed it was “the safest place on the internet” stored its users’ intimate information online in a non-password-protected database accessible to the public.
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