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Sunbird and Nothing Chats Apps Pulled Due to Major Security Concerns

Researchers discovered that the 'iMessage for Android' app and its partner service, Nothing Chats, were not end-to-end encrypted as claimed, leading to serious privacy issues.

  • Sunbird, the 'iMessage for Android' app, has been temporarily shut down due to serious security concerns.
  • Security researchers discovered that contrary to its claims, Sunbird could access every message, photo, video, document, and other data sent through the app.
  • Nothing Chats, a new messaging service based on Sunbird, was also pulled from the Google Play store after the same security failures were discovered.
  • Sunbird and Nothing had claimed that their messaging services were end-to-end encrypted, but researchers found that messages were decrypted and transmitted using HTTP to a Firebase server in plain text.
  • Both companies have yet to make a public statement on the matter.
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