Anonymous video chat app leaks data on millions of users — more than 22 million records exposed, including 3 million containing names and email addresses

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• The breach directly granted access to 22 million session records and 3.47 million usernames and email addresses or similar identifiers
• The platform, which claims privacy and security as core tenets of its offerings, is often used for intimate or explicit conversations with strangers, making this security flaw a critical issue
• The leaks also contained sensitive metadata that can be tied back to users, including device details, gender, payment information, and geolocation-specific information such as IP addresses, country, and language

In what is being treated as a major cybersecurity lapse, the randomized video chat platform FTF Live may have unwittingly compromised millions of its users due to a misconfiguration.