Dear Valued Customers,
Avanti Markets deeply values the relationships we have with individuals who utilize kiosks supported by Avanti Markets. This notice is to make you aware of an incident which may have resulted in unauthorized access or acquisition of your personal information and/or payment card data, and to provide you information on steps you can take to protect yourself and minimize the possibility of misuse of your information. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and assure you we are working diligently to resolve this incident and to ensure that it will not happen again.
Link to official Breach Notice: http://www.avantimarkets.com/notice-of-data-breach/
Brian Krebs has more information at https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/self-service-food-kiosk-vendor-avanti-hacked/
Hacks like this can be brutal for startups trying to increase adoption. Hope they make it out of this one okay.
But their business model is weird -- is this a glorified snack machine that streamlines payments from employees? The irony here, of course, is that one of the most common perks at a funded startups is that kitchen fully stocked with coffee, soda and other snacks.
Yeah, and it continues to become more and more common it seems. What I find to be the most interesting about it at this point is that it collected biometrics as well. Can/Will this open victims up to future replay attacks?
lol This was the first time I had heard of them as well. It definitely seems from like a glorified snack machine. I have not looked into them further at this point.
Woah I missed that part. Thanks for highlighting that.
Very nice post. I UpVote and followed. Maintain a good relation ship.
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