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Facebook-backed Jio leaked trove of coronavirus app data because it didn't have a password

A safety lapse in Reliance Jio‘s coronavirus symptom checker exposed the results of millions of folks who took the tests. As first reported by TechCrunch, while the data was largely anonymized in nature, bad actors could’ve taken merit of it and revealed all of the data. Jio, India’s largest cell community supplier, introduced its coronavirus symptom checker in …
A security lapse in Reliance Jio‘s coronavirus symptom checker exposed the results of millions of folks who took the tests. As first reported by TechCrunch, while the data was largely anonymized in nature, bad actors could’ve taken advantage of it and published all the information. Jio, India’s biggest mobile network provider, launched its coronavirus symptom checker in …

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