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Gauteng panic app exposed crime reports and your locations

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

We expose yet another South African government IT fiasco. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Gauteng’s e-Panic Button app exposed the names of people who made crime reports, the reports themselves, locations of the people making the report and people accused of committing crimes.
Some of the reports concern domestic violence and assault, and many contain images related to crimes.
The same system also exposed users’ login codes and other sensitive information.
GroundUp alerted the Gauteng government and the IT company to the problems on Monday. They have been fixed.

The Gauteng government’s e-Panic app allows residents to report crimes as well as request emergency assistance. We found that the database used by the app was not secured.
The app exposed users’ personal…

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