March 02, 2012
Thu 07 Jul 2011

Groupon reveals security breach in India

was alerted to a security issue

  • Groupon said in a statement sent to AFP that it "was alerted to a security issue" affecting its Sosasta.com subsidiary last Friday and that it "corrected the problem immediately
  • Sosasta, an online discount portal acquired in January 2011, informed its subscribers Tuesday and posted a message on its Facebook page asking users to "change your Sosasta password immediately
  • "A few hours and tweaks later, this database came up," he told the Internet security site risky.biz
  • Daniel Grzelak, founder of the Internet security website shouldichangemypassword.com, found the security breach while running a Google search for publicly available databases of email addresses and passwords
  • "I started scrolling, and scrolling, and I couldn't get to the bottom of the file


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