A smartphone app that athletes and others
attending next month’s Winter Games in Beijing
must install has glaring security problems that
could expose sensitive data to interception,
according to a report published this week.
Citizen Lab, an internet watchdog group, said in
its report the MY2022 app has seriously flawed
encryption that would make users’ sensitive data
— and any other data communicated through it
— vulnerable to being hacked. Other important
user data on the app wasn’t encrypted at all, the
report found.
That means the data could be read by
Chinese internet service providers or
telecommunications companies through Wi-Fi
hotspots at hotels, airports and Olympic venues.