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Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users
Another consumer-grade spyware operation was hacked in June 2024, which exposed thousands of Apple Account credentials.
Surveillance malware, like SpyX, also go by the term stalkerware(and spouseware) because sometimes the operators explicitly promote their products as a way to spy on a spouse or domestic partner, which is broadly illegal without that person’s knowledge. According to Hunt, one of the two files in the breached cache referred to iCloud in its filename and contained about 17,000 distinct sets of plaintext Apple Account usernames and passwords. As for the rest of the email addresses and passwords found in the breached text files, it was less clear if these were working credentials for any service other than SpyX and its clone apps.
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