"The makers of uMobix and associated mobile tracking apps, like Geofinder and Peekviewer, are the latest stalkerware provider to expose sensitive customer data, after a hacktivist scraped the payment information of more than 500,000 customers and published them online. The hacktivist said they did this as a way to go after stalkerware apps, following in the footsteps of two groups of hacktivists who broke into Retina-X and FlexiSpy almost a decade ago."
"The uMobix data leak comes after last years' breach of Catwatchful, which was used to compromise the phone data of at least 26,000 victims. Catwatchful was just one of several stalkerware incidents in 2025, which included SpyX, and the data exposures of Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie surveillance operations, which left messages, photos, call logs, and other personal and sensitive data of millions of victims exposed online, according to a security researcher who found a bug that allowed them to access that data."
A whole shady industry sells stalkerware that enables jealous partners to monitor and spy on family members by accessing victims' phones remotely. Multiple app makers promote these tools and collect extremely sensitive personal data. An ongoing tally identifies at least 27 stalkerware companies since 2017 that were hacked or leaked customer and victim data online, with at least four companies breached multiple times. Recent incidents include breaches at uMobix, Geofinder, Peekviewer, Catwatchful, SpyX, Cocospy, Spyic, Spyzie, and Spytech, exposing messages, photos, call logs, and payment details for hundreds of thousands to millions of people.
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