Walgreens Announces its Mobile App Leaks Personal Data
Walgreens, the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health, announced that its mobile app leaked users' personal data.
Walgreens says their investigation determined that an internal application error allowed certain personal messages from Walgreens that are stored in a database to be viewable by other customers using the Walgreens mobile app. Once they learned of the incident, "Walgreens promptly took steps to temporarily disable message viewing to prevent further disclosure and then implemented a technical correction that resolved the issue."