PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 17:42:53

Vatican's 'Click to Pray' app exposed 700K users' data due to security flaw

By PulseAugur Editorial · [2 sources] ·

A significant security vulnerability in the Vatican's 'Click to Pray' app has exposed the personal data of over 700,000 users worldwide. The flaw, discovered by security researcher BobDaHacker in January 2026, allowed unauthorized access to user information including names, email addresses, and birthdates through an unsecured API. Despite attempts to notify the app's developers, no action was taken for six months, leading to the data leak continuing. The vulnerability was only addressed after a journalist from Dark Reading published a story on the issue. AI

IMPACT Minimal direct impact on AI operations; highlights general app security risks.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a security vulnerability in a specific app, not a core AI release or significant industry-wide event.

Read on Mastodon — mastodon.social →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 2 sources. How we write summaries →

Vatican's 'Click to Pray' app exposed 700K users' data due to security flaw

How we ranked this

Signal score
0 / 100
Composite score across the factors below. Higher = stronger signal that this story matters right now.
Newsworthiness bucket
Tool
The cluster describes a security vulnerability in a specific app, not a core AI release or significant industry-wide event.
Source corroboration
2 independent sources
Multiple independent publishers reporting the same story raises confidence that it's real and newsworthy.
Topics
product, safety
Editorial topic classification. Feeds into how the story surfaces on /topic/<slug> hub pages and into the per-entity coverage mix.
AI-industry relevance
Low
Off-topic or adjacent — cluster remains reachable but doesn't surface in AI-industry rankings.
Story freshness
62 days old
Aged out of breaking-news scoring windows; ranking reflects the durable signal from the full source set.

Full methodology in our editorial standards.

COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jowi Morales ·

    Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been leaking user data for over six months and still does

    An app linked to the Vatican with hundreds of thousands of users was found to have zero authentication and security. That means anyone can access its backend and siphon users' data, including names, email addresses, and birthdates. While the issue has since been resolved, it rema…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been le… An app linked to the Vatican with hundreds of thousan

    Security flaw in Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaves over 700,000 global users exposed — app has been le… An app linked to the Vatican with hundreds of thousands of users was found to have zero authentication and security. That means anyone can access its backend and siphon user…

    LINKS tomshardware.com/…/security-flaw-in-vatic… tomshardware.com/tech-industry

RELATED ENTITIES

RELATED TOPICS