In early May, fitness company Peloton announced that it had exposed customer account data on the internet. Anyone could access users’ account data from Peloton’s servers, even if the users set their account profiles as private. The cause: a faulty API that permitted unauthenticated requests.
Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow for easy machine-to-machine communication. API use has seen explosive growth lately. According to Akamai, API communications now account for more than 83% of all internet traffic.
