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Re:How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker ...
on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:43AM (#25113765)
Yes, It's not 100% hacking, but I guess I exploited a vulnerability in their API by creating an administrator account to gain access to their dashboard.
Thanks for the comment, I will change the dashboard picture
Re:How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker ...
on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:20AM (#25112727)
There is a big dilemma about privacy in such contact tracing apps, solutions, that require a post of its own.
I mean, if you have no idea who access the data, who can use the data.
Yes anyone can put a TOS or privacy policy that no one can see the data, but even though that's the case, there have been numerous occasions where employees were found to misuse PII.
Re:How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker ...
on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:10AM (#25112578)
A simple cookie token or session token is all what it needed for a quick fix
Re:How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker ...
on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:52AM (#25112318)
Sorry about that, and thanks for the update :)
Re:How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker ...
on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:25AM (#25111958)
Yes, there should have been more pen testing and reviews before such an important service was released storing lot of personal information.
I'm happy I was able to find the vulnerability within 4 days of it's public release
Re:How I hacked the StaySafe program, the government Covid-19 tracker ...
on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:18AM (#25111880)
OP here - Thank you very much.
Yes it was a simple debugging everything done with the browser and with some code review :)