Badoo (com.badoo.mobile): Privacy & Security Findings

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On behalf of our research partners, we investigate publicly distributed Android and iOS apps: we decompile them, follow their code and data flows, and trace every connection to the servers it reaches. Hundreds of agents work through each app and join the technical evidence into one picture, which our specialists then review and verify.

387+
Android/iOS apps audited
Every app is decompiled at source-code level, not just scanned from outside.
1.04M+
Smali classes read
The full shipped code we have actually read, not an estimate.
262+
Critical findings recorded
Confirmed findings copied to regulators, not theoretical risks.
970+
Weak points found
Third-party tracking we have provably found inside the binary.
567+
Endpoints investigated
Real servers and countries where data actually flows.
132+
SDK instances mapped
Reusable libraries correlated across the entire corpus.
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Badoo
NASDAQ
2026-06-20
91d ago
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Critical
Badoo scans your passport with your camera and also reads the chip inside it, using a vendor that already suffered its own data breach in 2020, and does all of this with no protection against a fake server impersonating Badoo's real one. Of every identity-scanning app reviewed in this programme, Badoo is the only one asking for a government ID document with zero certificate protection in place.
Au10tix passport OCR (vendor disclosed a 2020 breach) + Veriff NFC passport chip reading, over zero TLS certificate pinning anywhere in the app - the only app in the series processing government ID documents with no pinning at all.
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GDPR Art. 9(1)GDPR Art. 32GDPR Art. 9(1)+4
Yes
Closed
Disclosure
91d 00h 00m 00s
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