{"id":758,"date":"2025-05-14T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=758"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:56:21","slug":"collection-of-private-data-makes-mobile-apps-fat-target-for-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Collection of Private Data Makes Mobile Apps Fat Target for Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mobile-app-security.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mobile-app-security.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mobile-app-security-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mobile-app-security-768x399.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mobile applications are quietly attracting more and more malevolent attention \u2014 and for good reason. They contain a trove of private information about their users. In the iOS universe alone, 82.78%, or about 1.55 million apps, track private user data, according to the trends tracker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/explodingtopics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exploding Topic<\/a>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technewsworld.com\/story\/collection-of-private-data-makes-mobile-apps-fat-target-for-hackers-179685.html\">To read more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile applications are quietly attracting more and more malevolent attention \u2014 and for good reason. They contain a trove of private information about their users. In the iOS universe alone, 82.78%, or about 1.55 million apps, track private user data, according to the trends tracker\u00a0Exploding Topics. To read more click here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}