Hackers who gain access to a Starbucks card can move balances to a card or account they control by changing a victim’s e-mail address used for a transfer verification code.
This is not the first time hackers have taken advantage of Starbucks’ auto-load feature, with customers noticing similar issues dating back to 2013.
Starbucks also recently suffered a massive point-of-sale computer outage that struck stores in the US and Canada in April 2015.
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