Emails & logins | 21 million screenshots of worker activity exposed in employee monitoring platform breach

A major privacy breach at an employee monitoring platform has exposed millions of screenshots, including worker emails, internal chats, and confidential documents.

The affected platform, WorkComposer, is a tool used by employers across the globe to monitor the activity of over 200,000 workers.

According to Cybernews, whose researchers uncovered the breach, the leak has now been secured, but the sensitive screenshots pose major cybersecurity risks to affected employers and their workforce.

21 million screenshots exposed in employee monitoring app leak

An unsecured Amazon S3 bucket led to the unintended exposure of over 21 million screenshots of worker activity, Cybernews reported.