WorkComposer leak exposes 21 million employee screenshots online

A hot potato: A serious breach of workplace privacy has come to light after a popular employee monitoring application inadvertently exposed more than 21 million screenshots of workers' computer activity to the public internet. The incident has raised urgent concerns about the security and ethics of digital surveillance in modern workplaces. Over 200,000 employees across thousands of organizations use WorkComposer to track productivity by logging keystrokes, monitoring application usage, and capturing screenshots every few minutes. Researchers at Cybernews discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 storage bucket that exposed these screenshots, effectively putting a frame-by-frame record of daily work routines on public display. The exposed images revealed a vast trove of sensitive information. Many captures showed full-screen views of emails, internal chats, business documents, and login pages displaying usernames, passwords, API keys, and other credentials. Cybernews promptly notified Wor ... Read full article.