At least one server used by a parent app that cares to monitor the activity of their children's phones has revealed tens of thousands of parents and children accounts.
Mobile app, TeenSafe, is a "safe" iOS and Android monitoring app that allows parents to see their child's messages and whereabouts, monitor those who are calling and access their browsing history and find out which applications they have installed.
Although applications for youth monitoring are controversial and a great violation of privacy, the company says it does not require parents to get their children's consent.
But the Los Angeles-based California company left unprotected and without a password to all users.
Robert Wiggins, a UK security researcher looking for public and exposed data, found two running servers.
The servers pulled off the line after ZDNet announced the company, including another containing what appears to be just the test data.
"We've taken action to close one of our servers to the public and start alarming consumers that could potentially be affected," a TeenSafe spokesman for ZDNet said Sunday.
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