In addition, Internet and mobile service providers and wireless access point operators have access to the data - and anyone in intelligence services they share that data with, knowingly or not. It's not trivial to get the data, but attackers can do so by setting up malicious wireless access points or who use man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept network traffic. They found the data and links to its online location by intercepting traffic on a Windows 7 PC that was setup as a wireless access point for one of the mobile phones used in the test. Ibrahim Baggili and Jason Moore, researchers from the University of New Haven's Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group, demonstrated Viber's open transmission of the data Wednesday on a YouTube video. The online chat app Viber sends video and images without encryption and stores it online afterward at a publicly available address, researchers have found. A University of New Haven demonstration shows that Viber sends doodles, images, and map imagery unencrypted.

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