Social media customers searching for a substitute for Elon Musk’s Twitter ought to in all probability keep away from Hive Social, in line with a crew of cybersecurity consultants who turned their consideration to the platform after it hit greater than one million customers.
German researchers Zerforschung issued an all-out warning to keep away from Hive Social.
“The points we reported enable any attacker to entry all information, together with non-public posts, non-public messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages,” the crew wrote in its report. “This additionally consists of non-public e-mail addresses and telephone numbers entered throughout login.”
Zerforschung was additionally in a position to exhibit how a menace actor might additionally alter different customers’ posts.
After reporting the problems to Hive Social on Nov. 26, Zerforschung wrote, the platform took down their servers for a couple of hours and relaunched with an up to date model on Dec. 1.
Dark Reading reached out to Hive Social for remark, however has not but acquired a response.
The Zerforschung crew recommends Mastodon as a (considerably) extra safe social media various to Hive, together with Twitter.