181,000 AI Meeting Recordings Exposed in tl;dv Hack

Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app

181,000 AI Meeting Recordings Exposed in tl;dv Hack

A security researcher found that tl;dv, an AI meeting recorder, left its Firestore database open, allowing any user to access 181,874 meeting records, including live calls. The researcher joined meetings from the Malaysian Ministry of Education and a US university, and discovered that 1,000 meetings were actively recording at any time. Despite reporting the issue in January, the company has not fixed it after six months, and also exposed employee data via an unsecured internal app.

I was in the same call. Nobody invited me. The Firestore database did.

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2026-08-10