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May 23, 2015 04:00 pm

Hacker Warns Starbucks of Security Flaw, Gets Accused of Fraud

Andy Smith writes: Here's another company that just doesn't get security research. White hat hacker Egor Homakov found a security flaw in Starbucks gift cards which allowed people to steal money from the company. He reported the flaw to Starbucks, but rather than thank him, the company accused him of fraud and said he had been acting maliciously.

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