UpGuard can now report that a cloud storage repository containing personally identifiable information (PII) and device data tied to millions of phone app users, collected by the multi-device advertising app “TVSmiles”, has been secured. Among the 261 database tables present, the “core_users” table consists of over 6.6 million rows. Of the entries containing an email address, 901,000 are unique. The publicly accessible storage bucket contained a 306 GB PostgreSQL database backup with unencrypted PII matched to individual users, profiling insights about users’ interests based on quiz responses, associations to smart devices, and accounts and login details for TVSmiles’ business relationships. TVSmiles is a German company with customers and users largely located in Europe where the General Data Protection Regulation was passed in 2016 and implemented in 2018.
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