Lots of popular iPhone apps ‘secretly take screenshots of your phone’
Dozens of popular iPhone apps are secretly recording videos of what happens on screen – and potentially exposing data such as passport numbers and credit card details.
Apps such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Abercrombie and Fitch and several airline apps record what’s happening on screen – and send it over the internet.
It’s thanks to ‘session replay’ software provided by Glassbox, which allows companies to ‘record’ people’s browsing sessions in the app, TechCrunch reports.
But the apps could be recording – and sending – materials that users wouldn’t be happy about, including credit card details, the App Analyst has warned.
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App Analyst looked at several apps with Glassbox software built in for TechCrunch, and found that apps such as Air Canada might be sending private data, unencrypted.
App Analyst told TechCrunch, ‘This gives Air Canada employees — and anyone else capable of accessing the screenshot database — to see unencrypted credit card and password information.
‘Since this data is often sent back to Glassbox servers I wouldn’t be shocked if they have already had instances of them capturing sensitive banking information and passwords.’
