29-09-2018 18:44 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Latest glitch for May - botched party app lets public log in as cabinet ministers

British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party apologised on Saturday after releasing a phone app for the annual party conference that let members of the public log in as senior government ministers and view their personal details.Dawn Foster, a columnist with the Guardian newspaper, discovered that a flaw in the app allowed users to log in as anyone attending the party conference, simply by entering an email address.It meant the mobile phone numbers of all those attending the four-day
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