Bug Puts The Data of 100 Million Users at Risk- TrueCaller

Security Researchers have found a privacy bug in the Caller ID App giant, TrueCaller. This bug puts the personal details of about 100 Million users at risk.

This vulnerability was first described by Cheetah Security, however it has been fixed, only if users update to the latest version of the TrueCaller App.This bug is only present in the Android App of the Truecaller, however company claims that they have fixed it. In November last year, Truecaller claimed that it is now having over 200 million users in various mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Windows.

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t update with fix of this privacy bug. Researchers at Cheetah Mobile Firm on Monday said that Truecaller uses the IMEI number of the device in order to identify the person. The proof concept was also shared with Softpedia, in which researchers managed to fetch the personal details of the users by ‘interacting with the app’s servers.’ Softpediafurther said that about 100 million users of the Android App are affected by this bug.

As mentioned above, this is due to TrueCaller’s utilization of the users IMEI number in order to identify the user.