{"id":26501,"date":"2025-09-26T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/?p=26501"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:16:00","slug":"call-recording-app-that-pays-users-shuts-down-over-major-security-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/call-recording-app-that-pays-users-shuts-down-over-major-security-flaw","title":{"rendered":"Call-Recording App That Pays Users Shuts Down Over Major Security Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A call-recording app called Neon has been shut down just a week after its launch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The app paid users for their recorded conversations, which were then sold to AI companies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A major security flaw allowed any user to access the private call data of other users. The exposed data included phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The founder took the app offline but reportedly did not inform users about the security breach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neon, a new call-recording app that pays users to sell their conversations to AI companies, has been shut down just a week after its launch due to a massive security flaw. The app, which had quickly gained popularity, was taken offline after a report from TechCrunch revealed that any logged-in user could easily access the private data of other users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The security breach was a big one. It allowed anyone to see other users&#8217; phone numbers, the numbers they called, and, most alarmingly, access the actual call recordings and their transcripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report, it had contacted Neon&#8217;s founder, Alex Kiam, about the vulnerability. Kiam quickly took the app&#8217;s servers offline and started telling users that the service was being &#8220;paused.&#8221; However, he reportedly did not inform them about the serious security breach that had exposed their private data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s unclear whether or when Neon will be back online, or what new security measures the company plans to implement. The incident serves as a stark reminder of the privacy risks associated with users handing over their personal data, particularly sensitive information like recorded phone calls, in exchange for a small payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Neon, a new call-recording app that pays users to sell their conversations to AI companies, has been shut down just a week after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}