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COVID-19 Data-Sharing App Leaked Healthcare Worker Info

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Dissent

Elizabeth Montalbano reports:

A platform used by healthcare workers in the Philippines designed to share data about COVID-19 cases contained multiple flaws that exposed healthcare worker data and could potentially could have leaked patient data.

Vulnerabilities found in both the COVID-KAYA platform’s web and Android apps allowed for unauthorized users to access private data about the platform’s users and potentially patient data, according to a report from researchers at the The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the University of Toronto.

Read more on ThreatPost.


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