Source: malwarebytes.com 9/29/25
We’ve covered spyware and stalkerware leaks many times before, but we don’t often see such exposure in software used by law enforcement.
According to a report by Straight Arrow News (SAN), the hacker “wikkid” said the intrusion against RemoteCOM was “one of the easiest” they’d ever carried out.
RemoteCOM describes itself as “the premier computer, smartphone and tablet monitoring service for the management of pretrial, probation and parole clients”. According to a leaked training manual, its software, sold as “SCOUT”, says it can be used to track targets ranging from sex offenders, sex traffickers, and stalkers to terrorists, hackers, and gang members.
Behind its official branding, SCOUT behaves like spyware: it records keystrokes, captures screenshots, and even sends out an alert if the tracked person types certain keywords.
The hacker accessed two key files: “officers” (6,896 entries), containing the names, phone numbers, work addresses, email addresses, unique IDs, and job titles of people working in the criminal justice system who have used RemoteCOM’s services, and “clients” (around 14,000 entries), covering individuals currently or previously monitored by SCOUT; listing names, email addresses, IP addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers, alongside the names and emails of their probation officers.
The files also contained details of the offenses clients were charged with, ranging from sex offenses, weapons, and narcotics cases to terrorism, stalking, domestic violence, sex trafficking, fraud, violence, and hacking.
This type of data leak can be dangerous for both sides of the app. Clients tagged with the keyword “sex” are not necessarily convicted sex offenders—they could be suspects under surveillance or have not yet been to trial—but that distinction might not stop any vigilantes out there.
For officers, the leak of names, contact details, and workplaces could expose them and t
I’m surprised that no one has commented about this. This is messed up.
When under probation for my possession case, I refused to have any of these “monitoring” apps on my phone. Instead I possessed my, against probation, tablet. Even when I got busted with it, and almost went back to prison, I got another one!!! Being Internet savvy, I knew what these services were all about. Never people, never!!!