The article discusses the alarming trend of stalkerware companies, which sell monitoring apps for spying on families, being frequently hacked and leaking sensitive information. Since 2017, at least 23 such companies have had data exposures, with Cocospy and Spyic recently leaking the personal data of millions, including customer email addresses. The situation worsened in 2024, with multiple significant breaches exposing logs and support data from several stalkerware applications. This trend underscores the risks involved with such invasive software and the sensitive data that falls into the wrong hands.
There have been at least 23 stalkerware companies since 2017 that are known to have been hacked, or leaked customer and victims' data online.
Cocospy leaked 1.81 million customer email addresses, while Spyic exposed 880,167 email addresses, totaling 2.65 million email addresses after removing duplicates.
In 2024, there were at least four massive stalkerware hacks, with the last affecting Spytech, exposing logs from monitored devices.
Multiple app makers market their software as 'stalkerware' to jealous partners, allowing them to access the phones of their victims remotely.
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