iPhone AI app leaked 55,000 NSFW user stories – and emails too

What happens in your AI-generated erotica app… apparently doesn’t stay there.

Cybernews researchers discovered that Novel AI: Book Creator – an iOS app with nearly 2,000 App Store reviews – exposed over 55,000 user-generated stories, some of them heavily NSFW, along with customer support emails and personal data via a misconfigured Firebase database.

Why it matters:

  • Blackmail bait: exposed stories + email addresses = a sextortion goldmine
  • Hardcoded secrets: the app also leaks keys, tokens, and IDs that could give attackers backend access
  • Silent devs: the developers have yet to respond, even months after disclosure
  • Systemic problem: 71% of the 156,000 iOS apps we analysed leak at least one secret

You can read the full Cybernews report here.

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