NOT APPY ON PRIVACY FAIL
NEAR-NUDE photos were allegedly among private and confidential information accessed by unsuspecting users of a Gold Coast influencer’s fitness app after a data glitch logged them into other people’s accounts on Tuesday afternoon.
Influencer Rachel Dillon’s Move With Us fitness platform’s users flooded a Facebook forum, asking why they were able to see personal information of people they had never met while attempting to log into their own accounts, while others reported seeing other people’s progress photos.
“The app encourages you to take before and during photos as you progress through the challenges, girls often take these in their underwear or sometimes with no clothes at all as you assume your data will stay safe,” one user said.
“What happened this afternoon was an app update was pushed out to all of our apps and it obviously contained some kind of bug or malfunction where when a user logged into their own profile, they were presented with another user’s profile data.”
She said she could see another person’s email address, app preferences, and date-of-birth information, and while she could not personally see anyone else’s photos, she was worried that her photos and information had been visible to other people.
The Move With Us Facebook community page was awash with nearly 200 comments asking if others had the same issue.
The Dietitians Move With Us account, which also acts as the group admin, responded: “We sincerely apologise for the issue and can confirm this has now been fixed. Our app provider has also advised that progress photos were not visible by others.”
But that was disputed by several posters, who said that other people’s photos were “definitely visible”.
Rachel Dillon has been contacted for comment.