A security flaw in a mobile app used primarily by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party exposed the personal data of every eligible voter in Israel just three weeks before a national election
Jerusalem A security flaw in a mobile app used primarily by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party exposed the personal data of every eligible voter in Israel just three weeks before a national election.
The flaw in the Elector app revealed the names, addresses and identity card numbers for each one of Israel's 6,453,255 voters in such a simple way that it didn't require any advanced knowledge of hacking to access the critical information."It wasn't very technical," said software developer Ran Bar-Zik, who exposed the flaw in the Haaretz newspaper on Sunday after it was fixed."It's amazing. It's a very simple, very stupid hack.
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