Repeat Offender: Groupon Exposing Customer Emails in Google Search
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice…F you Groupon! The daily deals giant has now for the second time in its short history exposed customer emails IN GOOGLE RESULTS! Approximately 170 emails come up when searching the site and adding “allinurl addx” to the query — the total was around 80 during the previous breach two years ago. In the past, the company blamed the breach on customers “pasted their deals into publicly-crawlable pages around the Web,” but promised a fix. For some reason the results appear in Google, but not Bing. The exposed emails are a fraction of Groupon’s 36.9 million users and likely hundreds of millions of email subscribers. [Source TechCrunch]
























