Serious privacy flaw in SimpleNote
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Until today I didn’t care about strong encryption for my notes, but just today something scary happened to me, I decided to access SimpleNote to make some basic notes and during the process my note simply disappears in front of me, then I saw a new note being created and it was in English (I’m from Brazil and I write in Portuguese), I thought it might be some kind of glitch in the app or maybe testing some new AI feature or something, I decided to log out and when I came back I saw that a new note was being created but now in Slovak, I played in the translator to understand and decided to answer, I asked who was writing there and I got an answer, the person told me she didn’t care about that and asked me what I was doing today, then she narrated what she did, like a walk with family, friends and a barbecue. Yes, that’s what you read! Someone was writing her notes and I could see them in my SimpleNote, and interact with her. I deleted my account, created a new one and it continued, now I have a note with the idea of a book to be written in French. I searched on Reddit about it and amazingly, there are several identical reports! I think I’m going to start worrying a bit more about the encryption and security of my notes from now on.
https://forums.simplenote.com/forums/topic/simplenote-security-breach-tonight/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Simplenote/comments/1ev0tez/delete_your_account_and_stop_using_simplenote/
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We’ve posted an update here on this issue: https://forums.simplenote.com/forums/topic/simplenote-security-breach-tonight/?view=all#post-3065
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