Friday, 24 March, 2023

West Bengal govt's website bug exposes COVID-19 lab test results

<p>A security flaw in the website of the West Bengal govt&#39;s COVID-19 testing program exposed the personal data of millions who were tested. Sourajeet Majumder, a security researcher found that the link containing the patient&rsquo;s unique test identification number could be easily converted using online tools as it was scrambled with base64 encoding. The ID was sequenced, allowing anyone to change it in the browser&rsquo;s address bar to view another test result.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>