Student finds iSharing app vulnerabilities, prompts security improvements

Summary: Eric Daigle, a student, discovered vulnerabilities in the iSharing app, exposing 35 million users' precise locations, names, and contact details. The bugs allowed unauthorized access to location data. Daigle notified iSharing, prompting a fix. The company plans to enhance security measures. Daigle confirmed the fix before TechCrunch published the story. iSharing attributed the issue to a feature oversight. Daigle intends to continue researching location-tracking and stalkerware.

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