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Hackers are draining bank accounts via the Starbucks app
CNN ^
| 05/14/15
Posted on 05/14/2015 7:10:28 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Thieves are stealing money from people's credit cards, bank and PayPal accounts -- by first tapping into their Starbucks mobile app.
Starbucks (SBUX) on Wednesday acknowledged that criminals have been breaking into individual customer rewards accounts.
The Starbucks app lets you pay at checkout with your phone. It can also reload Starbucks gift cards by automatically drawing funds from your bank account, credit card or PayPal.
That's how criminals are siphoning money away from victims. They break into a victim's Starbucks account online, add a new gift card, transfer funds over -- and repeat the process every time the original card reloads.
These thefts were first reported by consumer journalist Bob Sullivan.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accounts; bank; bankaccounts; hackers; starbucks
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posted on
05/14/2015 8:21:10 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: SamAdams76
Well - everybody can break it now, now we know your secret
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posted on
05/14/2015 10:01:01 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(where's Brutus?)
To: caww; Enlightened1
"Absolutely....but they will do it just the same and convince society it’s safe anyway."
That would make some of us even more determined to become as self-sufficient as possible. In one of the most extreme climate areas in our country, I haven't used any public utilities for five years.
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posted on
05/14/2015 10:17:56 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: caww; Enlightened1
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posted on
05/14/2015 10:22:56 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: shove_it
I like the coffee from the machines better. At home, it’s Maxwell House.
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posted on
05/15/2015 4:18:21 AM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: familyop
We stopped going to Starbucks when the CEO said that if we didn't share his pro-gay-rights agenda, he didn't want our business. Glad to learn their business is down.
To: WKUHilltopper
People are too stupid to know that or to distracted to care as long as the coffee flows and American Idle/NFL is on.
To: Resolute Conservative
I’m starting to come to this realization. A bumper crop of fools we have.
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posted on
05/15/2015 7:44:30 AM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: SamAdams76
Stored in the cloud? When you store passwords in the cloud it means that you’ve given up control of it to someone else.
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posted on
05/15/2015 8:08:30 AM PDT
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
To: BlueMondaySkipper
My personal cloud. I am looking up in the sky right now and there I see it. A big puffy cloud holding MY information!
Looks like it's about to rain down emails.
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