This Christmas- Groupon Customers Are The Target of Hackers To Steal Money

The Groupon is the US-based e-commerce company which is providing its services in 28 countries. This company is a marketplace which connects the users with local merchants. The users of Groupon are reporting that someone is placing orders on their behalf. It seems like, the cyber crooks have stolen the credentials of Groupon customers from anywhere because they are using accurate credentials of victims to place orders. By doing this, fraudsters are stealing thousands of pounds from victim’s bank accounts. In one case, the Groupon customer lost his £2,420.

The customers of Groupon are reporting about their money theft but they are not getting any reply from the company. The users are blaming that the company is not able to track this type of fraudulent activities. Some of the users are saying that they haven’t got any reply from several days. The fraudsters are grabbing special online holiday vouchers and ordering expensive things such as “iPhone and PlayStation4” from the Groupon accounts of victims. You can see some tweets of Groupon customers:

Response of The Company

The company has said that the accounts of their customers are safe. They start a quick investigation and did not found any type of data breach. The company said that our systems and databases are totally safe. Maybe, fraudsters have stolen the login credentials from somewhere else. All the customers, which are using same username and passwords for all the accounts, could be the victim of this fraud. The recent data breaches could be the reason behind it. In recent “Adult Friend Finder” data breach, 417 million user accounts had been exposed by the hackers. Moreover, “3 Mobile” data breach exposed 6 Million user accounts.

One of the company spokesperson said that only a small number of customers have been targeted by the fraudsters. Our servers and databases are safe, so it is the result of previous third party data breaches. We care about the security of customer information, therefore we will investigate the whole incident. The spokesperson also said that if a customer noticed that he is a victim, he can report it and we will cancel all the orders to refund his money.

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