Reliance Jio COVID-19 Symptom Checker Tool Found to Have Major Security Lapse

Reliance Jio has been actively participating in helping people get out of the global pandemic crisis. It is doing its bit by providing excellent data services at cheap rates, and its parent company Reliance Industries Limited has been doing quite a bit of charity work as well. Governments all over the world have been putting resources in developing apps which will be able to help people track symptoms of COVID-19 and be able to identify if they have it or not. Indian Government also developed on such an app called – ‘Aarogya Setu’. Reliance Jio also launched an app for checking symptoms for COVID-19. It can be used to check symptoms for your entire family. But it has been found that there is a security lapse with the app and allows others to go through a users database on the internet without any password. The news, first reported by TechCrunch, is based on the findings by security researcher Anurag Sen.

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Reliance Jio has Pulled the System Offline For Now

As soon as this news reached Reliance Jio, the company pulled the app offline. There is no records or data for knowing if someone else has already been able to access the data. A Jio spokesperson said that the company had taken immediate action. He said that the logging server was to monitor the performance of the website and was only intended for a limited purpose of people checking their symptoms and ensure that they have/don’t have COVID-19.