A security breach in Flipboard jeopardizes your password
Cyberattacks are not just a matter of applications where personal information is handled or in which one can come into contact with bank details, they can come from anywhere to collect any information of interest. This is demonstrated by the case of the news aggregator Flipboard, which managed to succeed due to its design, simplicity, and possibilities a few years ago on most smartphones. Well, the cyberattackers have managed to overcome their barriers and get hold of user account data
According to Flipboard, the company is aware of two unauthorized accesses by third parties. One, the first to occur, between June 2, 2018 and March 23, 2019, and a second case between April 21 and 22 of the same year. Enough to get hold of names, email accounts, and passwords of Flipboard users
Of course, they have not been able to access sensitive information related to bank accounts. Although yes with metadata and tokens related to Google, Facebook and Twitter accounts to access Flipboard. According to the aggregator company, they have no record of it ever being used by third parties. And, as a precaution, they have decided to delete said data or tokens and replace them with new ones so that there is no type of vulnerability.
Also, please note that not all Flipboard users have been affected. But those who have a user account prior to March 2012 have fewer protection barriers as they do not have encryption. As a security measure, Flipboard has reset the 145 million passwords of registered users of the service. So everything should be secure again so that this information is never compromised by any third party. At least in the same way they have done so far.
As a Flipboard user, when you return to the service you will find yourself needing to record a new password the next time you access the service In addition, you will have to revalidate your Google, Facebook or Twitter accounts with which you previously logged in, due to the reset of token information that Flipboard has carried out for security reasons.
All this if you ever use Flipboard again, of course. And it is that the news aggregator had its golden moment during the boom of the applications, in the first years of development of the iPhone and after the Android boom. The application allows you to follow Internet sources such as the media, web pages, forums and other content. Just like with other news aggregators. The difference is in its design, which is more like a quality digital magazine, taking care of the visual details, than a mere collection of links.
In fact, over time, Flipboard came to give users the opportunity to create their own digital publications All you had to do was You have to pick up the desired articles and curate or edit them in one of these Flipboard formats.All this allowing the turning of pages, the reproduction of videos and audios and always taking care of the format so that the experience is as pleasant as possible.
Of course, little by little the application has stopped appearing in the media and has lost traction among users. And not only that. It has also disappeared from among the collections of pre-installed applications that came in terminals like Samsung's. Still, it is a good idea to be aware of the security issue and createcreate a new security password to avoid any breach or problem.
