Data exposed in the flaw include users' ID numbers, location and infection status, vulnerable to hackers.
CORONAVIRUS. A field hospital set up by Qatari authorities to treat people infected with the coronavirus Covid-19 is pictured here, dated May 11, 2020 in Doha. File photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP
Despite insisting the unprecedented access was necessary for the system to work, officials said they would address privacy concerns and issued reworked software over the weekend. More than 47,000 of Qatar's 2.75 million people have tested positive for the respiratory disease – 1.7% of the population – and 28 people have died.
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