An app designed to track employee productivity by logging keystrokes and taking screenshots has suffered a significant privacy breach as more than 21 million images of employee activity were left in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket.
An app for tracking employee productivity by logging keystrokes and capturing screenshots was hit by a major privacy breach resulting in more than 21 million images of employee activity left in an unsafe Amazon S3 bucket.
Experts at Cybernews discovered the breach at WorkComposer, a workplace surveillance software that monitors employee activity by tracking their digital presence. Although the company did secure access after being informed by Cybernews, the data was already leaked in real time to anyone with an internet connection, exposing the sensitive work information online of thousands of employees and companies.
WorkComposer is an application used by more than 200,000 users in various organizations. It is aimed to help those organizations surveil employee productivity by logging keystrokes, monitoring how much time employees spend on each app, and capturing desktop screenshots every few minutes.
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