Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Is Being Sold Online

hawki · Jul 23, 2020

"Hundreds Of Thousands Of Instacart Customers’ Personal Data Is Being Sold Online

Names, credit card data [last four digits], addresses, and information on transactions as recent as yesterday are being sold online...

The company denied there had been a breach of its data..."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/instacart-customers-info-sold-online

guest · Jul 24, 2020

Instacart blames reused passwords for account hacks, but customers are still without basic two-factor security
July 24, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/24/instacart-data-theft-two-factor/

Online shopping service Instacart says reused passwords are to blame for a recent spate of account breaches, which saw personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers stolen and put up for sale on the dark web.

The company published a statement late on Thursday saying its investigation showed that Instacart “was not compromised or breached,” but pointed to credential stuffing, where hackers take lists of usernames and passwords stolen from other breached sites and brute-force their way into other accounts.

“In this instance, it appears that third-party bad actors were able to use usernames and passwords that were compromised in previous data breaches of other websites and apps to login to some Instacart accounts,” the statement reads.
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But who’s really to blame here: the customers for reusing passwords, or the company for not doing more to protect against password reuse?
Granted, it’s a bit of both.
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