Globally, Over 4 Million Shopify Users Are at Risk

In a report published on Friday by CloudSEK’s BeVigil, a security search engine for mobile apps, it has been found that over four million users of e-commerce apps around the world are exposed to the risk of hardcoded Shopify tokens.   

As an e-commerce platform, Shopify allows anyone to create a store that enables them to sell their products online and allows businesses to do the same. Shopify is expected to be used by more than 4.4 million websites by the end of 2023 and is located in more than 175 countries. 

 

Researchers are claiming that there is a risk that crooks will gain access to sensitive data belonging to millions of Android users with e-commerce apps. 

It was recently revealed in a CloudSEK BeVigil report that researchers discovered 21 e-commerce apps that had 22 hardcoded Shopify API keys and that these keys/tokens could potentially expose the personally identifiable information (PII) of roughly four million users to the possibility of identity theft. 

A hardcoded API key becomes visible to anyone with access to the code, including attackers and unauthorized users, as soon as the key is hardcoded in the code. An attacker can access sensitive data and perform actions on behalf of the program if they can access the hardcoded key. They c

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