Mobile Health Apps Systematically Expose PII and PHI Through APIs, New Findings from Knight Ink and Approov Show
(1) Report Reveals API-Focused Mobile Attacks Exploit Vulnerabilities Such as BOLA to Expose Patient PII and PHI, and the Pandemic-Driven Uptick in mHealth App Usage Exposes Millions of Patients' Data Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection for mobile applications, today released findings revealing that fully 100 percent of the 30 popular mHealth apps analyzed by Alissa Knight, partner at Knight Ink, are vulnerable to API attacks that can allow unauthorized access to full patient records including protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII)...