OUTATIME

July 9, 2018 8:45 AM

Timehop, an app that reminds social media users about posts from their past, has disclosed that it suffered a major security breach on July 4. According to the company, 21 million users had some form of personal data stolen.
posted by box (4 comments total)

I'm impressed with the fact that the intruder was patient. Had access for months, and waited until a holiday to try and do more. Welcome to the internet. You're only as safe as the most sleepy careless admin in a stack more layers deep than you can ever reasonably expect.
posted by DigDoug at 9:25 AM on July 9, 2018

Which reminds me, I used to use Timehop and loved it. Then they made lots of changes and it became a useless app so I deleted the app. Do I still have an account with data? No idea. This is a problem with apps. Out of sight, out of mind and it can be really difficult to figure out what you have open out there and what data they might be holding.
posted by amanda at 9:40 AM on July 9, 2018 [2 favorites]

I use Timehop because I like seeing old pictures of my kids. I like that they don’t store my data but just pull from the various services, and that they just straight killed all of the tokens for all of the services, whether you’re using the app or not.
posted by sleeping bear at 12:59 PM on July 9, 2018

I reconnected Twitter and am getting nothing.
posted by Legomancer at 5:19 AM on July 11, 2018