Boots yanks loyalty card payouts after 150K accounts get stuffed

The UK pharmacy chain says it wasn’t hacked, its systems are fine. It’s all the password reusers mucking things up again! Continue reading Boots yanks loyalty card payouts after 150K accounts get stuffed

Loyalty program fraud targets 600,000 Tesco shopper accounts

U.K. supermarket giant Tesco has recently warned its loyalty program members of a security incident that may have affected over 600,000 Clubcard holders. “We are aware of some fraudulent activity around the redemption of a small proportion of our… Continue reading Loyalty program fraud targets 600,000 Tesco shopper accounts

Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account

Amazon is following Google’s lead by forcing all users to use two-factor authentication when logging into their Ring accounts. Continue reading Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account

2FA is being pushed out to all Google Nest users to better protect their accounts

If a Google Nest account is compromised by a malicious hacker that’s not bad news for the legitimate owner of the account, it’s also bad news for Google.
So that’s why they’re trying to do something about it…
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