Hot New ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Millions of Contact Data

Published

2017-08-28 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 08:38

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id: 4237
title: "Hot New ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Millions of Contact Data"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/chat-app-hijacks-contact-data"
published_at: "2017-08-28T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["android", "mobile-security", "privacy", "ios", "sarahah", "data-collection"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4237"
lang: en
---

# Hot New ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Millions of Contact Data

## Summary

Bishop Fox finds the viral 'anonymous' app Sarahah silently uploads every phone number, email and contact name to its servers, with no 'find friends' feature to justify it, affecting millions.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2017-08-28T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/chat-app-hijacks-contact-data
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4237