date:Jan 17, 2014
The popular specialty coffee chain is in a bit of hot water after security researcher Daniel Wood decided to test the Starbucks app (available for Android and iOS) to see if it was secure.
According to CNNMoney, the Starbucks app stores a significant amount of user information. This includes the user's home address, username, e-mail address and full name.
That's one issue that could aggravate customers, but there is a much bigger problem involving the way that data is stored.
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