CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen

Re:CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen by untog on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:34PM (#8528117)

I'm sure this is directly connected to the outrage at NFC payments being disabled in CVS, etc. - effectively, they've become a target.

That said, they're supposed to be a payments provider. They should be able to cope with being a target.

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Re:CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen by mason55 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:42PM (#8528179)

I'm sure this is directly connected to the outrage at NFC payments being disabled in CVS, etc. - effectively, they've become a target.

If they weren't a target because of the NFC stuff then they would have become a target because they're a payment platform. The only difference is probably how quickly the hack happened (or how public it became). If it had been the Chinese or Russians they possibly would have just pilfered and sold personal data.

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Re:CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen by ProCynic on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:45PM (#8528200)

They're not just supposed to be a payments provider. They're going to ask people to actually link their bank accounts so that the merchants don't have to pay credit card fees.

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Re:CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen by strict9 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:57PM (#8528295)

Hacking as retribution for personal data mining? Not likely. Sounds like an opportunity to get details from a financial transaction application while it's still green.

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Re:CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen by serge2k on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @01:57PM (#8528743)

Hacking to discredit and distrupt seems plausible.

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