Hackers can find your home on Strava even if you use privacy settings, researchers find

Belgian study shows "protected zones" can still be accessed by hackers 85% of the time

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Hackers can still work out where your home or work is from your Strava activities even if they are within "privacy zones", according to research from a Belgian university.

The study from PhD students at KU Leuven found that hackers, with limited effort, can discover up to 85% of protected locations.

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Adam Becket
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Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling on tarmac, he's happy. Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.