Breaking News : Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus website was hacked and 40K users credit card data were compromised

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Today (January 19th, 2017), Mingyu, a staff of OnePlus company has published a post to its official OnePlus blog site stated that the hackers injected some malicious scripts into the company’s payment page code and stolen all credit card data. However, OnePlus maintains that customers who used saved credit cards or paid via the “Credit Card via PayPal” and those who bought OnePlus products via PayPal should not be affected.

According to Mingyu's statement on the official OnePlus blog --

“We cannot apologize enough for letting something like this happen. We are eternally grateful to have such a vigilant and informed the community, and it pains us to let you down.”

“We are working with our current payment providers to implement a more secure credit card payment method, as well as conducting an in-depth security audit. All these measures will help us prevent such incidents from happening in the future.”

However, OnePlus just sent a caution via emails to its affected consumers stated that between mid November 2017 to January 11, 2018 their credit card numbers, expiry date, and CVC codes were hacked. And OnePlus has already contacted law enforcement authorities in regions it operates in and offered free credit monitoring to affected customers.

Source of News : https://www.hackread.com/oneplus-website-hacked-credit-cards-data-stolen/

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