{"id":379105,"date":"2018-09-30T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T01:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-labour-attacks-tories-for-app-data-leak\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T01:15:11","slug":"presstv-labour-attacks-tories-for-app-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-labour-attacks-tories-for-app-data-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Labour attacks Tories for app data leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The British Labour party reacts to a major security flaw at the official conference mobile phone application of the UK\u2019s Conservative party, which has revealed the personal information of top politicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson, Gavin Williamson and Michael Gove were among the top Tories whose information, including their phone numbers, were leaked, <em>The<\/em> <em>Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/sep\/29\/tory-conference-app-flaw-reveals-private-data-of-senior-mps\">reported<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Details of prominent MPs public were amended by users, some claiming that Johnson\u2019s picture had been briefly changed to one featuring a pornographic image.<\/p>\n<p>A Rupert Murdoch image was also uploaded for Gove.<\/p>\n<p>To make such changes, all the users had to do was to second guess the attendees\u2019 email addresses with no password.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour party took the opportunity to discredit the Tories\u2019 capability to protect national security.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHow can we trust this Tory government with our country\u2019s security when they can\u2019t even build a conference app that keeps the data of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/29\/575597\/Top-UK-politicians-data-leaked-via-Tory-app-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Labour party reacts to a major security flaw at the official conference mobile phone application of the UK\u2019s Conservative party, which has revealed the personal information of top politicians. Boris Johnson, Gavin Williamson and Michael Gove were among the top Tories whose information, including their phone numbers, were leaked, The Guardian reported Saturday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}