Occasionally, the affected businesses deny the facts, disregarding our research or playing down its impact.
In this case, after we contacted PayMyTab to inform them of the data breach and offer our help.
By providing their email address, they could view their receipt online from their email inbox.
The exposed customer PII makes those affectedvulnerable to many forms of online attack and fraud.
Even if they handle this glitch, clients may be reluctant to use PayMyTab in the future.
PayMyTab will need tocompletely overhaul their data storage to sort out the issue.
Amazon provides detailed instructions to AWS users to help them secure S3 buckets and keep them private.
However, this is still not fully effective.
They could use this to undermine any future randomized security measures placed on the bucket.
The individual who uncovered the leak requested thatwe be informed to increase public awareness.
By doing this, we aim to encourage all mobile payment firms to reevaluate their data protection procedures.
The purpose of this web mapping project is tohelp make the internet safer for all users.
Asethical hackers,were obliged to inform a company when we discover flawsin their online security.
This is especially true when the companies data breach contains such private information.
However, these ethics also mean we carry a responsibility to the public.
PayMyTab users must be aware of a data breach that impacts them also.
[Publication date: 19.11.2019]
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