Criminals Are Stealing Money Through The Starbucks App.....

[Yuva Nataratna]

Starbucks, the internationally popular coffee chain, acknowledged that criminals are actively using the company's official app to obtain personal details as well as gain access to monetary accounts. The criminals create a new gift card, load your money onto the card, and transfer the funds over. Starbucks had no process in place to challenge or halt the transactions, or ask for customers affected to provide a secondary approval.

Since many people use the same, simple password for multiple, if not all accounts, once one system has been compromised, criminals can just try the same username and password combinations on other systems, and often get right in.

Once they have access, the criminals are reportedly using the auto-refresh option to load more money onto the Starbucks account, and then using that money to send gift cards to email addresses they control.
To be clear, there's no indication anyone has hacked into Starbucks's system to steal customer data. They're just exploiting week, repetitive passwords. It's absolutely a crime, but it's one we can help prevent by using strong, unique passwords. An example of a strong, unique password is: 8qHjz>g%wHkY+siEzri8

Because strong, unique passwords are not only incredibly hard to crack, they're almost impossible to remember, we also recommend using a password manager like 1Password or LastPass. These tools also offer password generators that can supply random passwords for use on various accounts. You're even able to determine the password strength.

Starbucks should also make two-step authentication — where a token gets texted to a trusted device, like your iPhone — for better security on their end as well.

[k2s]

how ? 

[Comfort]

how ? 

+1

[Anta Assamey]

How is it possible...  :surprised-038:

[Yuva Nataratna]

How is it possible...  :surprised-038:

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.CNNMoney interviewed several Starbucks customers who in recent months have had this happen to them.It happened to Jean Obando on the Saturday evening of December 7. He had just stopped by a Starbucks in Sugar Land, Texas and paid with his phone app. Then while driving on the highway, his phone chimed with a barrage of alerts. PayPal repeatedly notified him that his Starbucks card was being automatically reloaded with $50.

Then came the email from Starbucks."Your eGift Just Made Someone's Day," the email said. "It's a great way to treat someone — whether it's to say Happy Birthday, Thank you or just 'this one's on me.'"He got 10 more just like it -- in just five minutes.

Starbucks didn't stop a single transaction or pause to ask Obando for secondary approval. All of them went through. When Obando told Starbucks he thought his account was hijacked, Starbucks promised to conduct a review. When Obando asked to stop the payments and refund his money, Starbucks told him to dispute the charges with PayPal.

[Maximus]

inak Spotify tho tie up ayying Starbucks..

[arshad]

inak Spotify tho tie up ayying Starbucks..

 

 

E gif ki artham enti Nataraja  :#<

[Anta Assamey]

 

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.CNNMoney interviewed several Starbucks customers who in recent months have had this happen to them.It happened to Jean Obando on the Saturday evening of December 7. He had just stopped by a Starbucks in Sugar Land, Texas and paid with his phone app. Then while driving on the highway, his phone chimed with a barrage of alerts. PayPal repeatedly notified him that his Starbucks card was being automatically reloaded with $50.

Then came the email from Starbucks."Your eGift Just Made Someone's Day," the email said. "It's a great way to treat someone — whether it's to say Happy Birthday, Thank you or just 'this one's on me.'"He got 10 more just like it -- in just five minutes.

Starbucks didn't stop a single transaction or pause to ask Obando for secondary approval. All of them went through. When Obando told Starbucks he thought his account was hijacked, Starbucks promised to conduct a review. When Obando asked to stop the payments and refund his money, Starbucks told him to dispute the charges with PayPal.

 

 

ardam ayyindi ...  :3D_Smiles_38:

[Maximus]

E gif ki artham enti Nataraja  :#<