{"id":872,"date":"2010-06-07T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=872"},"modified":"2010-06-06T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:09:42","slug":"mobile-gift-cards-have-security-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Mobile gift cards have security holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t followed the mobile gift card space much, other than to say that having a gift card on your mobile phone makes it much more likely that you will have it when you need it.\u00a0 But it looks like the technology hasn&#8217;t quite been perfected yet and offerings by some popular retailers, Target and Starbucks can still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storefrontbacktalk.com\/securityfraud\/target-starbucks-suffer-mobile-gift-card-security-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">fall prey to the oldest of gift card hacks<\/a>, copying the card data while it is on the rack, cloning the card, and then when activated by a customer, spending it before they do.\u00a0 Making gift cards mobile makes it even easier for thieves to perpetrate this scam as they don&#8217;t need any fancy card writers.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps closed-loop retailers that offer gift cards should solve this fraud problem once and for all before dragging it into new offerings like mobile gift cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t followed the mobile gift card space much, other than to say that having a gift card on your mobile phone makes it much more likely that you will have it when you need it.\u00a0 But it looks like the technology hasn&#8217;t quite been perfected yet and offerings by some popular retailers, Target and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}