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Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:11PM from the good-deal dept.

itwbennett writes "The customer database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary was published, unsecured and unencrypted, on the company's site for long enough to indexed by Google. Australian security consultant Daniel Grzelak, Tweeted the news and also notified Groupon, which 'was amazing at providing a swift and full response,' Grzelak said on Twitter. 'They deserve credit for their reaction.'"

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Re:Daily Deal! (Score:4, Informative)

by Lev13than ( 581686 ) writes: on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @02:01PM (#36613678) Homepage

It won't be quite that bad - experts predicted that over 1/3 of the passwords will never get used.

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