A surveillance tool meant to keep tabs on employees is leaking millions of real-time screenshots onto the open web.
Your boss watching your screen isn’t the end of the story. Everyone else might be watching, too. Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a major privacy breach involving WorkComposer, a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies.
The app, designed to track productivity by logging activity and snapping regular screenshots of employees’ screens, left over 21 million images exposed in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, broadcasting how workers go about their day frame by frame.
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WorkComposer is one of many time-tracking tools that have crept into modern work culture. Marketed as a way to keep teams “accountable,” the software logs keystrokes, tracks how long you spend on each app, and snaps desktop screenshots every few minutes.
The leak shows just how dangerous this setup becomes when basic security hygiene is ignored. A leak of this magnitude turns everyday work activity into a goldmine for cybercriminals.
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The leak’s real-time nature only amplifies the danger, as threat actors could monitor unfolding business operations as they happen, giving them access to otherwise locked-down environments.
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Source: Employee monitoring app exposes 21M work screens | Cybernews
Can you imagine the time lost by employers going over all this data?
Microsoft Windows new built in spying tool Microsoft Recall is a really great idea too. Not.
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