The Workish app connects extra-private individuals with simple assignments, such as moving or cleaning assistance, so-called micro jobs. Workish takes 12 percent of the compensation paid to the person performing the task.

Artist Linda Pira is one of the people behind the app. And several Swedish artists have marketed it on social media.

Now Workish receives criticism for having major security gaps. In a thread on Twitter, Andreas Lindh, who calls himself a hacker, has pointed out several security flaws. SVT News asked David Jacoby, who is researching IT security at Kaspersky, to take a look at Workish.

"Not bulletproof"

- The app is not bulletproof. It is very easy to find security flaws. I see that they have not had security with them from the ground up when developing this app, says David Jacoby.

Can you give examples of security vulnerabilities in Workish?

- Without going into detail you can see that the app sends things in plain text, that is, unencrypted. It's not good, he says, and continues:

- The problem is if someone listens to the traffic. Then they can access what is being sent. For example, username, password and email address.

David Jacoby says it is well known that people reuse passwords and that this is therefore a security risk. But he emphasizes that the seemingly poor security of Workish is recurring in many apps.

- Many who work with apps lack a security background. And many simply build apps based on the specifications they receive from the client without thinking about the security, he says and continues:

- There are guaranteed a lot of apps that have the same problems as this one. And at worst, they have a vulnerability in their infrastructure that makes it possible to access all users' data.

The minister's criticism of Workish

Workish has previously been criticized for not accepting responsibility for users paying taxes or social security contributions and for this type of service contributing to an insecure labor market.

Labor Minister Eva Nordmark (S) has criticized Workish:

"Getting rid of tax or deceiving someone to work for low wages and under worse conditions is not a hype," she wrote in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.

Breakit reports that Workish has been high on both leaderboards in both the App Store and the Google Play Store.

SVT News has asked artist Linda Pira for a comment.