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The pope’s prayer app has been leaking its users’ info for months
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A vulnerability in the pope’s official prayer app, Click To Pray, has reportedly left the information of its nearly 720,000 users exposed.
The exposure, according to security researcher “BobDaHacker,” has been ongoing for at least six months and includes users’ names, email addresses and countries of origin.
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network did not respond to an email sent by Straight Arrow on Friday.
The researcher warned that the data, in the hands of a malicious actor, could be used to exploit the app’s users.
“That’s 700,000+ email addresses belonging to people who signed up for an app to pray.