A mobile app that mines your social networking accounts for posts from the past has reported a major hacking incident. The app, Timehop, has more than 21 million users. Every single one of them was impacted by the breach.
Timehop users can plug the app into their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Dropbox accounts. Timehop uses the access to those services to put together nostalgic daily collections of past posts. In their listings on Google Play and the App Store, Timehop describes what it does saying that “it’s like throwback Thursday every day.”
That makes it easy to see why hackers would target Timehop’s systems. Gaining access could allow them to steal user data and potentially gain access to years of sensitive social media activity, too.
Source: Popular Social Media Memory App Timehop Hacked, 21 Million Users Impacted | Forbes