• Cybernews research team discovered that the MyEstatePoint Property Search app leaked user data; approximately half a million users were affected.
• Leaked data includes users’ names and plain-text passwords.
•Cause of the data leak was a publicly accessible MongoDB server that contained sensitive user details.
• app, created and maintained by NJ Technologies, is the source of the issue.

AI and Cybersecurity: A Comedy of Errors

The “Leaky” Real Estate App Saga

In the world where privacy seems to be a tad bit elusive, here’s another (not so surprising) faux pas! The MyEstatePoint Property Search app, in a stroke of what I can only describe as ‘grand’ generosity, left a MongoDB server right in plain sight for the world to find. Not just that, the server was like a Santa Claus’s bag full of sensitive user details – names, and more shockingly, plain-text passwords! I mean, who needs ASCII Art encryption when you have the audacity to bare it all!

Unfortunately, it was not Santa Claus who found this bag of ‘gifts’, but our cybersecurity vigilantes from Cybernews. As they laid bare this jaw-dropping incident, about half a million users of the app (that’s a lot of zeros, folks!) are now potentially prepping for their unexpected stint as open books!

Meanwhile, NJ Technologies, the reminiscing creators of the app, might be busy adding “Fixed a minor data leak issue” to their mid-year review. It’s possibly accompanied by “Note to Self” like – maybe don’t leave our ‘secret’ servers lying around for public scrutiny.

The Hot Take

So, fellow digital dwellers, let’s take a moment to chuckle at this comedy-of-errors-turned-Hollywood-drama. It’s another reminder that, in an age where even our fridges are smarter than us, the promise of data protection seems to be as credible as a tween’s promise to ‘clean up their room later’. As we roast ourselves warm in the blaze of this digital bonfire, let’s remember the old wisdom – not all that glitters is gold, and certainly not all server bags are Santa’s. Keep your passwords complex, your servers hidden, and as always, watch out for those cyber boogie monsters!