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South Africa: How Gauteng's New Panic App Exposed Your Data

[GroundUp] Reports about domestic violence and assault, including images and locations, could be accessed by a tech-savvy computer user

  • Gauteng's e-Panic app exposed users' personal data and crime reports.
  • App's background location feature and connections to Discord raised security concerns.

We Chose the Actions by What Was Easy to Build

A manager came back from three weeks' leave in February and found that a colleague had been reading her mailbox. Nobody had told her before, during or after.

  • A colleague accessed a manager's mailbox in four minutes via a self-service tool.
  • The tool, built in 2022, logged 1,900 actions, 310 of which were mailbox delegations.
  • Of the 310 mailbox delegation actions, three were moved behind an approval process.

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