Exploit: Data Breach, Misconfiguration
Company: Walgreen’s
Industry: Retail, Pharmacy
Source: https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/walgreens-covid-19-test-registration-system-left-patient-data-unprotected/

Millions of people that registered to take a COVID-19 test at Walgreen’s may be at risk of data exposure due to what appears to have been an oversight in their website’s configuration.

The at-risk data includes names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, birth dates, gender identities and in some cases, test results of patients. The potentially affected data was reportedly left exposed and able to be viewed by anyone who came across it.

While cyber criminals have been targeting organizations with large amounts of data, the concern of having any amount of unprotected sensitive information exposed is a concern that companies of all sizes must be cautious of.

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