Hacking Starbucks and Accessing Nearly 100M Customer Records (samcurry.net) 3 points by kaisix 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] rbecker 6y ago ↗ What part of selling coffee requires keeping records of your customers? [–] kaisix 6y ago ↗ check their website for an answer. [–] rbecker 6y ago ↗ Loyalty cards aren't required to sell coffee. Nor do they have to be tied to a person.We shouldn't go along with the framing that loyalty programs and retaining all this information about customers is required to run a business.
[–] kaisix 6y ago ↗ check their website for an answer. [–] rbecker 6y ago ↗ Loyalty cards aren't required to sell coffee. Nor do they have to be tied to a person.We shouldn't go along with the framing that loyalty programs and retaining all this information about customers is required to run a business.
[–] rbecker 6y ago ↗ Loyalty cards aren't required to sell coffee. Nor do they have to be tied to a person.We shouldn't go along with the framing that loyalty programs and retaining all this information about customers is required to run a business.
[–] DrScump 6y ago ↗ $4,000 doesn't seem adequate if they could gain access to Starbucks card data. Given a card number, they could purchase using its entire balance, repeat ad infinitum.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 22.5 ms ] threadWe shouldn't go along with the framing that loyalty programs and retaining all this information about customers is required to run a business.