Following on from yesterday's story about eCommerce site Gearbest leaking customer data the company has issued an official response to ethical hacker Noam Rotem’s report. It says that its own servers are secure but that, "external tools we use to temporarily store data" may have been accessed by others leading to security having been compromised. The statement goes on to say: The external tools we use are intended to improve efficiency and prevent data overload and the data will only be stored in such tools for less than three calendar days before it is automatically destroyed. Considering possible data security breaches,…
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