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Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts


Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

But now Neon has gone offline, at least for now, after a security flaw allowed anyone to access the phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts of any other user, TechCrunch can now report. TechCrunch created a new user account on a dedicated iPhone and verified a phone number as part of the sign-up process. These details included the text-based transcript of the call and a web address to the audio files, which anyone could publicly access as long as they had the link.

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