PC maker leaks payment cards in e-store hack

Lost info includes names, addresses, numbers and security codes.

By Shaun Nichols

Acer’s insecure customer database spilled people’s personal information – including full payment card numbers – into hackers’ hands for more than a year.

The PC maker has started writing to customers [PDF] warning that their personal records were siphoned off from its online store by crooks between May 12, 2015 and April 28, 2016.

Acer did not say how many customers had their details swiped.

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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