Is Your Secret Safe With 'Secret' App?

Hackers expose anonymity issues

Hackers recently showed that Secret, the anonymous social networking app that encourages users to "speak freely," may not be so secretive after all.

Speaking with Wired, Ben Caudill, co-founder of Seattle's Rhino Security Labs, showed how he could find any users' "secret" posts with just their email address or phone number.

According to Business Insider, Secret has since fixed the issue. "As near as we can tell, this hasn't been exploited in any meaningful way," Secret CEO David Byttow told Wired.

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