Android users, esp OnePlus users, be aware of this security risk

swapsey on 27/01/2018 - 11:46

People are starting to discover that the contents of user clipboard is being sent to Chinese servers. Read the full thread here on twitter. Seems to suggest it is only for Chinese users but please be informed and be careful when copying (clipboard) banking passwords and other sensitive data on your Android phones!

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Comments

  • Purec on 27/01/2018 - 12:11
    +3

    Oneplus's statement:

    There’s been a false claim that the Clipboard app has been sending user data to a server. The code is entirely inactive in the open beta for OxygenOS, our global operating system. No user data is being sent to any server without consent in OxygenOS.

    In the open beta for HydrogenOS, our operating system for the China market, the identified folder exists in order to filter out what data to not upload. Local data in this folder is skipped over and not sent to any server.

    Source

  • mbck on 27/01/2018 - 12:38
    +2

    So…. They still send data to a server though. Yes it's not the ones listed on bad words.txt, but everthing else is sent over.

    Wow

  • [Deactivated] on 27/01/2018 - 12:43

    better put my tinhat on

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