Exposed Stalkerware Data Reveals Extensive Personal Information of a Celebrity

Sun, 03 May 2026 08:39:00 +0200

A European celebrity’s private data, including nearly 90,000 screenshots of messages, photos, and phone activity, was exposed online due to stalkerware. The spyware, identified as Cocospy, allowed an unknown actor to capture sensitive content from the victim’s smartphone over the course of a year, spanning mid-2024 to mid-2025. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the publicly accessible cloud repository, which lacked any access controls, and reported it to local law enforcement and the hosting cloud provider. The screenshots contained intimate photos, conversations with high-profile individuals, invoices, partial credit card numbers, and other personal data, highlighting that victims of stalkerware not only suffer privacy violations themselves but also inadvertently compromise the privacy of those they communicate with. Cocospy, previously marketed as a parental control and monitoring tool, operated in stealth mode and uploaded screenshots and app data from the target device