Timehop reveals July 4th data breach

Timehop, an app that resurfaces your social media posts from years’ past, revealed it suffered a data breach on July 4^th, giving the hacker access to data of 21 million users, including names, email addresses, and some phone numbers. According to Timehop, the hacker entered the app’s cloud computing account (which wasn’t protected by multifactor authentication then), transferred data, and then attacked its production database. Timehop noticed the breach two hours after it began and was able to put a stop to it. But not before the aforementioned number of users’ data have been stolen.

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Timehop lands on Android to help you take a trip down digital memory lane

Feeling nostalgic over years of digital memories? Timehop is finally letting Android users experience what iOS users have been using since 2011. The app works to collect your Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram content to show you what you were doing up to three years ago on any given date.

Source: The Verge