NOKIA 7 PLUS PHONES SENT PERSONAL INFORMATION TO China.Nokia 7 plus phones have been hidden sending personal information to China. Finland has started an investigation after
NRK’s ​​disclosure.
As per NRK’s reports, The end user’s phone number, GPS location, mobile phone IMEI number has sent to the Chinese server. Every time when Nokia 7 plus devices were powered on or Unlocked the information sent to the server. Moreover, the data packages were in an unencrypted format that is more horrify.
NRK investigated and found the server domain vnet.cn. Vnet.cn domain is own by China Internet Network Information Center( China Telecom).
Likely, that this is an application intended for the Chinese market but which has been accidentally distributed to Nokia 7 Plus phones outside China’s borders. HMD Global refused to make comment to NRK on the matter.
Further more, uncovered code on Github by non-other than Qualcomm.
The only other clue comes courtesy of security researcher Dirk Wetter, who claims the offending APK package sending this data to China is named “com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration.apk.” He had also investigated the network traffic to his Nokia 7 Plus, and saw the same remarkable packages.