22 August 2026 - 07:33

Category: Trust Issues

Another Brilliant Third-Party Gift

SickKids staff had personal data pinched through an unpatched third-party app. Why vet vendors when you can just enjoy the chaos?

Another Brilliant Third-Party Gift

Source: Recorded Future News

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Here we go again with the joys of software supply chains, as current and former staff at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children find their personal details exposed through a third-party app's security hole. At least clinical systems survived this round of vendor roulette. We keep telling everyone that vetting and diligently patching external vendor applications might prevent these tedious incidents, but clearly ignoring third-party vulnerabilities remains the preferred corporate strategy.

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