Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location.

According to the latest news, tracing the location of the original owners of certain posts or messages in popular social media and messaging applications could be extremely easy. The digital communication landscape is clearly a rather fascinating target for those interested in the huge amounts of data shared on a daily basis, and the issues that have arisen in recent times could make the theft of this data even more immediate.

Due to a similar error within the service of Cloudflare, a US company specialising in content delivery networks, it would now be possible to trace the company's data centre used by a messaging app to cache an image, thus allowing possible malicious attackers to obtain the approximate location of the user behind the post.

According to tests carried out by 404 Media, the online media outlet that owns today's reference article, the location obtained is rather broad, indicating only the state or city where the victim could be found. According to the security researcher who reported the problem to Cloudflare, ‘this is more of an oversight in the way the mobile application works than a vulnerability in the actual code.’