The Indian National Congress\u2019 (INC) official mobile app \u2018With INC\u2019 seems to have disappeared from the Google Play Store, after anonymous hacker who goes by the moniker Elliot Alderson on Monday alleged that the app was sending users\u2019 personal data to Singapore.<\/p>\n
However, the Congress party’s social media head tweeted saying the party app “has been defunct for a while now”.”The URL for membership on the INC (Indian National Congress) app has been defunct for a while now. Our membership is through the INC website. How difficult is that to understand,” tweeted the Congress party’s social media head Divya Spandana.<\/p>\n
On the app being deleted by the Congress, Alderson (you can read more about him in our interview) speaking to ToI, said, \u201cI think they got scared after my first tweet saying that I will look into their app.\u201d<\/p>\n
The vigilante hacker on Sunday had put out a message on micro-blogging site Twitter, saying he will publish \u201cinteresting details\u201d about the Congress mobile app he\u2019s found, on Monday.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Alderson alleged that when a user signs up for the Congress app, her\/ his personal data which is not \u201cencrypted\u201d is routed to the app\u2019s servers in Singapore.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s development comes in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s app — the NaMo app– running into trouble for asking its users for a strings of permissions including camera, photographs, location, contacts, and microphone.
\nInterestingly, it was Alderson, who had pointed out on Saturday that the NaMo app was sharing user data with a third party in the US without the users\u2019 consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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