Colin Perkel reports:
A prominent Canadian medical marijuana company took weeks to fix a website security weakness that could have allowed hackers to access a patient’s sensitive information.
In an interview this week, the chief technology officer of Namaste Technologies said the changes were made late last month ahead of plans to roll out a complete reworking of the flawed application, which had been put in place in January.
The vulnerability allowed anyone to confirm whether a particular email address was registered with Namaste.
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