‘Users’ data on Twitter’s Made in India Options KOO in danger’

KOO, a hacker on the Indian microblogging platform claims that platform is not able to protect users’ personal data. KOO is being described as an Indian option of Twitter and in the last few days the app has also been promoted by many ministries, leaders and other popular beliefs of the government. It is available in both website and app. Now, a French safety researcher Robert Baptist (Elliot Alderson on Twitter) says KOO is exposing its users’ personal data. The Baptist said that he spent 30 minutes on KOO at the request of users on Twitter and found that the microblogging platform is exposing his users’ sensitive information such as email address, name and birthday as well as many other information. He posted several tweets to explain this research about Koo (KOO). The Indian social media platform was launched in March 2020, but due to the ongoing differences between Twitter and the government, Koo has suddenly gained great popularity in the last few days.

Baptist through screenshot posted on Twitter Claimed Is that the personal information of KOO users is not safe and can be exposed. The hacker has proved that many private information like email, date of birth, matrimonial status of users in KOO can be easily exposed. In some other screenshots, the baptist also suggested that the domain of KOO has been registered in the US with a registrar based in China.

Made in India Microblogging App Koo is being promoted by several government officials including Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Ravi Shankar Prasad. He recently invited users to migrate in KOO via a post on Twitter. Many ministries and government companies including Republic of India Publish and Meity have also created their accounts in KOO. Let us know that Koo is available on desktop, iOS and Android. A major feature of this is to include support of many local languages. The app won the government’s Digital India Aatmanirbhar India Innovate Problem last year, which aims to encourage local app developers. KOO is developed by Aperameya Radhakrishna, which is also the co-founder and CEO of this platform.