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by EthanV2 2706 days ago
By the sounds of it this is a simple credential reuse attack (it's even states as such in the article) so I really don't see where these accusations of a "data breach", and "encryption, which appears not to have been in placeā€ come from. If these fraudulent transactions are the result of credential reuse I really don't see the GDPR violation here.
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Yeah, not to defend Deliveroo (that's still abhorrent customer service), but I fail to see how they can back up the allegations of the various breaches. How do they know encryption was not in place?
Don't see it either. Nobody said there was an actual breach. Of course a change of delivery address/email/phone or when combined with unusual orders (large amounts) should be flagged and cause 2FA or some other mechanism to request confirmation to the account holder of record.
It sounds like this could be trivially fixed by requiring re-entering payment details if you order to a new address, like Amazon and others do.