For a while our location service was limited to dedicated and purpose-built GPS, which had no other capability or task.. Currently almost all of us carry a GPS: our Smartphone, although these GPS and location services are used on a variety of different devices, as pet trackers, of cars, Child locators, sports tracking systems and any other device that has a location system.
Most of these devices save locations in a database so that it can be used with their own software., For example, To dump the data to a computer. These devices are connected to different positioning services. The problem is that a number of vulnerabilities have been discovered in these positioning systems that make there a serious risk of identity theft or other data., information regarding IMEI, the serial number of the devices, also the phone number or MAC identifier, even personal user information.
Therefore, A review of the affected services is recommended to avoid their use at least temporarily, until vulnerabilities are resolved.
In case we are using a vulnerable service it is recommended, The first thing, Change our service password (and everywhere else we use it), as well as removing from our profile all personal information that can be stolen through security breaches.