An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online

An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online

The leak highlights how digital workplace surveillance exposes employee's to new risks.

This app that monitors employees has exposed ultra-sensitive data

The software WorkComposer leaked millions of screenshots of employee computers into the network.

The employee monitoring tool WorkComposer has left millions of real-time screenshots unprotected on the net. The notion that the boss is monitoring your screen is worrying enough – but when this surveillance becomes public, the problem reaches a new dimension. Cybernews security researchers have uncovered a massive data breakdown at WorkComposer, a workplace monitoring software used by more than 200,000 people in countless companies. The WorkCom…

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WorkComposer misconfiguration exposes over 21M screenshots

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