currentC, the hated ApplePay rival, has been hacked

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	currentC, the hated ApplePay rival, has been hacked
Date	2014-10-29 20:06 +0000
Organization	solani.org
Message-ID	<m2rhbk$qv6$1@solani.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

From the «no change from the till» department:
Title: CurrentC, the much-hated Apple Pay rival, has been hacked
Author: Josh Ong
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:27:43 -0400
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/gNfTHyNow3w/
Podcast Download URL: http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-29-at-12.21.47-PM-520x245.png

If you want to build a reliable mobile wallet service, you should probably
avoid being hacked before you launch. CurrentC, a retailer-backed payment
system billed as one of the chief competitors to Apple Pay, has
notified customers that hackers may have acquired their email addresses, as
first reported by Business Insider. Parent company MCX asserted that only
emails were obtained during the breach, but it did warn customers to avoid
opening any suspicious emails or attachments. Even so, the hacking does raise
questions about the security of CurrentC’s system, which stores financial data
in the cloud and uses QR codes and...

This story continues[1] at The Next Web[image 3][2][image 5][4][image 7][6][image 8]

Links:
[1]: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/10/29/currentc-apple-pay-competitor-hacked-pilot-program/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=profeed (link)
[2]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?a=gNfTHyNow3w:xLko36Zh4Z4:D7DqB2pKExk (link)
[3]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?i=gNfTHyNow3w:xLko36Zh4Z4:D7DqB2pKExk (image)
[4]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?a=gNfTHyNow3w:xLko36Zh4Z4:yIl2AUoC8zA (link)
[5]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (image)
[6]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?a=gNfTHyNow3w:xLko36Zh4Z4:V_sGLiPBpWU (link)
[7]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheNextWeb?i=gNfTHyNow3w:xLko36Zh4Z4:V_sGLiPBpWU (image)
[8]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~4/gNfTHyNow3w (image)

Back to comp.misc | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

currentC, the hated ApplePay rival, has been hacked RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-29 20:06 +0000

csiph-web