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A popular Android barcode scanner app has some worrying cybersecurity flaws

Barcode being scanned.

A popular barcode-scanning app for Android carried a severe vulnerability that allowed anyone easy access to a database full of sensitive data, as long as they knew where to look. 

This is according to Cybernews report on the flaw in the Barcode to Sheet app, which allows ecommerce users to scan a barcode on an item and generate data in a format readable by different spreadsheet apps. 

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