DOOM AND GLOOM: Bodden likened his team's discovery to the Heartbleed bug, a web-based vulnerability reported last year that left half a million web servers susceptible to data theft.
SINGAPORE: Security researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way thousands of popular mobile applications store data online, leaving users' personal information, including passwords, addresses, door codes and location data, vulnerable to hackers.
The team of German researchers found 56 million items of unprotected data in the applications it studied in detail, which included games, social networks, messaging, medical and bank transfer apps.
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