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Title: Hundreds of dollars being stolen from Starbucks app users – weak/duplicated passwords blamed
Post by: HCK on May 14, 2015, 03:00:22 pm
Hundreds of dollars being stolen from Starbucks app users – weak/duplicated passwords blamed

Starbucks has confirmed multiple reports of users of its smartphone app having three-figure sums stolen from their accounts in the form of gift certificates, reports CNN. One user lost $550 in a matter of minutes, his account auto-reloaded each time it was emptied by a hacker sending a series of $50 gift cards. Other users have […]<img alt="" border="0" src="(http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=379564&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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