In an Attack on WebDetective’s Servers, Hackers Deleted Victim Data

There has been an attack on the makers of a tool that is widely used to track mobile devices, which destroyed all the data that was gathered on the victims and exposed those who were paying for the spyware to buy access to the information.  

According to a recent report on TechCrunch, there are more than 76,000 Android devices, mostly in Brazil, which are compromised by Portuguese language software called WebDetective, a software spy. However white hat hackers claim that they have removed all user data and information from the servers, which could be helpful to thousands of people around the world. 

The report indicates that Web Detective conducted a vulnerability discovery and exploiting effort anonymously in order to exploit vulnerable servers. It has been reported that hackers accessed user databases and downloaded records from the company’s software spy by hacking into the web panel of the software spy.

It was discovered and exploited that there were security vulnerabilities in the software by unidentified hackers. The compromise of WebDetective’s servers also allowed them to gain access to the clients’ databases by hacking into WebDetective’s servers. There is also an allegation that the hackers were able to disconnect the connection to the devices of the victims and block the new data from being downloaded from those devices.&n

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