7-Eleven fuel app data breach exposes users' personal details
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#4T5Q3)
App users were able to see other customers' data, including names, dates of birth and mobile numbers
The popular petrol-buying app run by 7-Eleven has suffered a data breach that allowed customers to view the names, email addresses, mobile numbers and dates of birth of other users.
The 7-Eleven fuel app, which the company said this week has been downloaded two million times, was taken offline for a matter of hours on Thursday after a customer alerted the company to the fact that he was able to access the personal information of several other customers via the app.
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