An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online

With the elegance of digital means, companies increase their control levels and increase risks. Now thousands of employees and parents are at risk after leaking the company’s security, after real-time images of their computers.

Thursday, researchers in CyberNews declare More than 21 million screenshots from Workposer, working with more than 200,000 companies around the world, were found in the unsecured Amazon S3 bucket.

As part of their services, WorkComposer draws screenshots of a computer’s computer every 3-5 minutes. Thus, leakages include personal information that can leave them sensitive to internal communication, login information and even identity theft, scammers and other.

It is unknown how many companies or employees affected as a result of leakage. However, in the opinion of the researchers, these images take a look at how “workers are going through the day.” By discovering, cybernews, at the same time opened a leak A similar company has contacted the workComposer that provides information earlier this year earlier this year. WorkComposer did not meet Gizmodo’s desire.

The images are already in the public, despite the public, the leakage of WorkComposer “should not be trusted in such information” An electronic border fund was a great pasture propaganda organizer José Martinez, told gizmodo via email.

“If an employee committed the type of work, this information can be used to set fire to them,” Martinez continued. “Georecomposer should also be off a job.”

In addition to screenshots monitoring, WorkComposer offers services including time (including monitoring breaks) and web tracking. On the website, the staff describes an unusual dystopia goal as a “help[ing] People cease to distract their lives and finish what is important instead. “The statement is a little ironic. Only one information leak is probably a great distraction, but any control you are aware of and distracting.

The observer’s harmful psychological and mental health effects are well documented. It does not change magically when the third-party companies are watching employees. American Psychological Association in 2023 declare 56% of digital workers feel stressful than 40 percent of tense or highlighted employees. Consumer lawyers’ group of public citizens note These control workers can increase mistakes and do not need to focus on the size of the behavior in the quantity that people do not need to do their work. “

The control of the workplace is not new in any way. However, the leakage of workcomposer shows that the control exponentially expanded thanks to new technology. Unfortunately the United States offers Very little protective at a state or federal level. For most employees belong to each company to decide how much employees want. However, it is difficult to imagine that a company’s companies brought by the companies brought by the companies that justifies the proximity of the confidentiality and autonomy.