{"id":190027,"date":"2024-05-24T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/hacker-defaces-spyware-apps-site-dumps-database-and-source-code"},"modified":"2024-05-24T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:22:29","slug":"hacker-defaces-spyware-apps-site-dumps-database-and-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/hacker-defaces-spyware-apps-site-dumps-database-and-source-code","title":{"rendered":"Hacker defaces spyware app\u2019s site, dumps database and source code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SL5uCPlUg2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A hacker has defaced the website of the pcTattletale spyware application, found on the booking systems of several Wyndham hotels in the United States, and leaked over a dozen archives containing database and source code data.<\/p>\n<p>As Vice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/m7ezj8\/stalkerware-leaking-phone-screenshots-pctattletale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> three years ago, this stalkerware app was also found leaking real-time screenshots from Android phones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pctattletalesw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Described<\/a> by its developers as an \u201cemployee and child monitoring software,\u201d pcTattletale is a consumer-grade spyware solution that was leaking guest details and customer information captured from the hotels\u2019 check-in systems because of an API security vulnerability, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/05\/22\/spyware-found-on-hotel-check-in-computers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker has defaced the website of the pcTattletale spyware application, found on the booking systems of several Wyndham hotels in the United States, and leaked over a dozen archives containing database and source code data. As Vice reported three years ago, this stalkerware app was also found leaking real-time screenshots from Android phones. Described [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}