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UK Conservative Party conference app leaks MPs’ personal details

MP members received prank calls, had their phone numbers and email addresses shared online.

 

29th September, 2018  By Catalin Cimpanu

 

A mobile conferencing app developed for the UK’s Conservative Party leaked the private details of people who registered to attend party conferences, including the details of party members and UK government officials.

 

The leak was discovered on Saturday afternoon, September 29, by Guardian columnist Dawn Foster who posted her findings on Twitter.

 

Foster discovered that anyone who wanted to attend a video conference using the Conservative Party’s mobile app would only have to register using an email address.

The app didn’t use any type of authentication mechanisms, such as passwords or one-time codes sent via email. A user only needed to type an email address into the app’s login field to access a profile page.

 

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