Now photo app used by MILLIONS falls victim to latest hack – are YOU at risk?



Photo app Touchnote has fallen victim to a cyber attack



HACKERS have stolen personal information from users of a wildly popular mobile app in the latest in a string of cyber attacks.

 

Online company Touchnote – which makes the app of the same name – was targeted by criminals earlier this week.

Sensitive details stolen from customers include their names, dates of birth, email addresses and postal addresses, according to a spokesman.

But users' credit card and debit card numbers are not thought to be at risk, he added.

 

The app – which is pre-installed on millions of handsets – lets people turn a photo taken on a phone into a postcard.

About four million postcards are believed to have been sent via Touchnote since it was launched in 2008.

It is still available to download on the App Store for iPhone users and Google Play for Android users.

 



The app is pre-loaded on millions of phones



A spokesman for Touchstone told concerned customers: "We take our responsibility to keep your data safe very seriously.

"Since we found out about the theft, we have been working solidly to review all our security measures and update our system infrastructure.

We are in contact with the National Cyber Crime Unit which has the responsibility for investigating and finding the perpetrators of such incidents."

 



TalkTalk was hit by a mass cyber attack last month



It came as TalkTalk announced that the details of 156,959 customers and 15,656 bank account numbers were accessed in last month's mass cyber attack.

But a spokesman for phone giant – which has come under fire for its security measures – insisted the data accessed "cannot on its own lead to financial loss".

The 28,000 obscured credit and debit card numbers that were "orphaned", meaning customers cannot be identified by the stolen data.

 

Thousands of British Gas customers were also targetted

Just days after the shocking TalkTalk leak, personal data about thousands of British Gas customers were leaked online.

The email addresses and account passwords of about 2,200 users were posted to the document-sharing site Pastebin.

Twitter user Holly Pryce wrote: "British Gas logins have been exposed, and our internet is with TalkTalk. Not having a good week, are we?!"