Practice by Numbers, the developer of a patient management software used in thousands of dentist’s offices, has fixed a security flaw that exposed the private health records of patients on a portal that comes bundled with the software, TechCrunch has learned. One patient, Joseph R. Cox, reported the bug to TechCrunch after he encountered the issue while looking at his own dental records on the portal, which was offered by his dentist’s office. This patient portal is part of a dental…
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