Millions of Xiaomi MI Accounts Hacked, Confirms Symantec

The danger with Xiaomi phones that the IAF has been warning people working in defense and their families about has become reality today. Xiaomi, the third major mobile company in the world have got the hacker impact so early unexpectedly.

People in India have raised concern over the issue regarding the loss of their privacy and valuable information secretly after the Indian Air Force(IAF)’s warning statement. We’ve seen Hugo Barra responding to the situation with his detailed status update about the gathering of personal information and makes a statement that the information is used to improve user experience in a future version of the device.

The flash sales of the devices through eCommerce websites shows the intensity of the impact that can cause a threat to. The hacker news exposes the screenshots of some of the leaked information of MI users and tweets the updates on twitter. Symantec, the maker of security software confirms the news shared by the hacker news on twitter.

BREAKING: Millions of #Xiaomi Mi Accounts Hacked; Change your passwords immediately http://t.co/mrir9rbOgu
— Symantec (@symantec) October 30, 2014

May be this is the time for Xiaomi to set up backup servers for Indian users or else the ‘eCommerce sale, cheap smartphones’ show is going to end as earlier as it was started. Let’s wait what the heads of the company say about it.