Lenovo said nearly a dozen ThinkPad and ThinkCentre laptops contain a hardcoded password flaw.

Lenovo today has patched a number of vulnerabilities that jeopardize private data, which are largely enabled by a simple hard-coded password in a freely available file-sharing application. The flaws were found in in the Lenovo ShareIT application for Android and Windows by researchers at Core Security’s CoreLabs. The app allows users to share files over...