Karsonya Wise Whitehead,

An article by TechCrunch written in Nov. 2022 describes a security breach at Fizz that led to users’ identities being revealed.

As reported by The Stanford Daily, Fizz’s platform was compromised in Nov. 2021, in which TechCrunch details that “Three Stanford students discovered that anyone could easily query the app’s Google Firestone-hosted database to identify the author of any post on the platform, where all posts are billed as anonymous. They also found users’ personal information like phone numbers and email addresses—plus, the database was editable, which made it possible to edit posts and give any user moderator status.” It is unknown how many Fairfield students are on Fizz, as The Mirror reached out to Fizz for comment, but they did not respond in time for publication. However, according to a poll posted on Fizz by an anonymous user on Feb. 7, there are at least 2,446 users. The poll states, “Let’s see which [class] year uses this app the most, ” and garnered results that state that 1,401 are first-year students, 662 are sophomores, 243 are juniors and 140 are seniors. With its exponential growth on Fairfield

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