Applebee's fixed customer data leak after database password was hardcoded in its Android app
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U.K. cybersecurity researcher Robert Wiggins of What Security found a hardcoded credential in Applebee's Android app, which has more than a million Google Play downloads, that allowed unrestricted access to registered customers' personal data. Applebee's confirmed Thursday it addressed the issue; TechCrunch withheld the story until the bug was fixed. Wiggins used AI to locate the password in thousands of lines of app source code.
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