Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages

Zack Whittaker reports:

Popular video calling and messaging app JusTalk claims to be both secure and encrypted. But a security lapse has proven the app to be neither secure nor encrypted after a huge cache of users’ unencrypted private messages was found online.

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Security researcher Anurag Sen found the data this week and asked TechCrunch for help in reporting it to the company. Juphoon, the China-based cloud company behind the messaging app said it spun out the service in 2016 and is now owned and operated by Ningbo Jus, a company that appears to share the same office as listed on Juphoon’s website.

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