{"id":4003,"date":"2021-04-12T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:47:18","slug":"no-password-needed-to-access-q-link-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/no-password-needed-to-access-q-link-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"No Password Needed to Access Q Link User Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q Link Wireless, the US telecommunications company responsible for providing free wireless services to Lifeline-eligible American consumers, is alleged to have provided user information to anyone who knows a customer&#8217;s phone number. It is alleged that the low-cost wireless and data service provider gave sensitive account information to 2 million US customers to anyone who knew a valid phone number on the operator&#8217;s network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since December, or possibly much earlier, the Q Link Wireless app, called My Mobile Account, displays information such as account name, ID, email, contact number, account address, and others for each account whenever it is presented with a valid Q Link Wireless phone number without a password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2021\/04\/no-password-required-mobile-carrier-exposes-data-for-millions-of-accounts\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;&gt;original story&lt;\/a&gt; in Arstechnica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q Link Wireless, the US telecommunications company responsible for providing free wireless services to Lifeline-eligible American consumers, is alleged to have provided user information to anyone who knows a customer&#8217;s phone number. It is alleged that the low-cost wireless and data service provider gave sensitive account information to 2 million US customers to anyone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-q-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}