<story><title>A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7a5k/hacker-wipes-spyware-retina-x-flexispy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>This is one of those cases where I probably should feel bad for the company being repeatedly hacked to the point of being ripe for being shut down, but I just can&amp;#x27;t muster the will right now.&lt;p&gt;If you are in the business of collecting data without users&amp;#x27; explicit permission, and can&amp;#x27;t protect that data from being accessed or deleted, you shoudln&amp;#x27;t be in business.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7a5k/hacker-wipes-spyware-retina-x-flexispy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewflnr</author><text>They stored the master key to their entire data store in a publicly distributed app?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...we have been taking steps to enhance our data security measures. Sharing details of security measures could only serve to potentially compromise those efforts.&lt;p&gt;Maybe they used ROT13 on the API key &lt;i&gt;twice&lt;/i&gt; this time!</text></comment>