A random person online has downloaded my full user database right after receiving access to my app. He sent me the list of my users in a txt file - I was literally shocked. Thank God it doesn’t seem to appear “ransomware” but more of a lead gen tactic - he wants to sell me cyber security services. …

Please use Row Owners to protect which rows can be downloaded, including your user profiles. Can you forward us the information you were sent, so we can review it?

So he got access to all the database? That’s bad.

Were you using any of the security measures that the Glide team has developed to protect the database???

Yes, the full list of registered users - their emails, basically.

What security measures? Shouldn’t protecting our database a default measure? I cannot locate any except from anonymising email addresses. And I’m not sure this would work for me and my users. There are plugins for Wordpress to avoid UserEnum.

@maschera Glide Docs [image] lock Row Owners Announcements We just rolled out a new security feature we call Row Owners. It will give your users more security and allows you to keep confidential data in Glide. If your users keep personal data in Glide, please use Row O…

Thanks Jason. I have enabled this, although I’m not sure it solves my issue.

More info https://docs.glideapps.com/all/guides/security-center

Ok - I have just sent it you via chat.

Aw man, that’s freaky. Hope you were using virtual email addresses!

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