{"id":231941,"date":"2026-02-23T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/android-mental-health-apps-with-14-7m-installs-filled-with-security-flaws"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:31:51","slug":"android-mental-health-apps-with-14-7m-installs-filled-with-security-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/android-mental-health-apps-with-14-7m-installs-filled-with-security-flaws","title":{"rendered":"Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/android-mental-health-apps-with-14-7m-installs-filled-with-security-flaws2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users\u2019 sensitive medical information.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the apps, security researchers discovered more than 85 medium-and high-severity vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise users\u2019 therapy data and privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the products are AI companions designed to help people suffering from clinical depression, multiple forms of anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users\u2019 sensitive medical information. In one of the apps, security researchers discovered more than 85 medium-and high-severity vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise users\u2019 therapy data and privacy. Some of the products are AI companions designed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,47,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231941","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=231941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}