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Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached

Posted by samzenpus on from the raise-shields dept.

tranquilidad writes "As previously discussed on Slashdot, CurrentC is a consortium of merchants attempting to create a "more secure" payment system. Some controversy surrounds CurrentC's requirements regarding the personal information required, their purchase-tracking intentions and retail stores blocking NFC in apparent support of CurrentC. Now news breaks that CurrentC has already been breached. CurrentC has issued the standard response, "We take the security of our users' information extremely seriously."

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  1. The real question is... by cloud.pt · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...do we get to see Jennifer Lawrence's "account balance"?

  2. back in the day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In my time we used to wait for a full roll out to break a system. Kids today lack the common courtesy to wait for the big payoff, and now we see the real price. It gives these folks the time to put another band-aid on their hack of a system and try again. You kids should have the decency to wait until it is rolled out to enough places to make a big score. It saddens me to see what has happened to this once great country.

  3. Re:Only emails by vakuona · · Score: 3, Funny

    Phew. That's OK then!