All That We Let In: Hacking Mobile Health APIs (Part 1)

Alissa Knight
7 min readDec 1, 2020

Introduction

Are you being kept up at night wondering just how secure your company’s mobile health (mHealth) APIs really are? You aren’t alone. And after the research I’ve conducted on mHealth APIs, you very well should be. If you aren’t, you will be.

The number of mHealth companies have more than doubled in the past two years and with COVID-19, the protracting work-from-home economy is rewriting workplace norms that have been in place since the first industrial revolution. The court of public opinion on the future of retail shopping, banking, and healthcare in our new mobile-first world has delivered their verdict. Any business requiring a physical trip to a brick and mortar building doesn’t have a future unless they offer their service through a mobile app.

What you’re reading is the first inculcation of a multipart series on the first-ever vulnerability research campaign performed of mHealth apps and APIs. Multiple mHealth companies participated in this research that will amount to the largest, unprecedented release of…

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Alissa Knight

Hacker | Cybersecurity Content Creator | Influencer | Published Author