Following Data Breach, Multiple Stalkerware Apps Go Offline
ID: d8b37b34-ef78-5fab-a2f3-370e742b2621
STIX ID: report--d8b37b34-ef78-5fab-a2f3-370e742b2621
Feed Name: Dark Reading
Date Published: 2025-05-22
Date Updated: 2026-04-21
Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
A news brief reports that three stalkerware apps (Spyzie, Cocospy, Spyic) were compromised in February 2025 via an easily exploitable vulnerability, exposing victims' messages, photos, locations and leaking approximately 3.2 million customer email addresses; the operator has taken websites, apps, and AWS storage offline and shut down several related tracking apps. The disclosure underscores severe privacy harms to often-unwitting victims and highlights both insecure infrastructure and potential legal exposure for the operator.
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