Update on BigCrumbs Breach

Our friend over at BigHabitat reported a couple days ago that shopping portal BigCrumbs is down and “currently offline”. He offers different possibilities of what could have happened.

The Big Crumbs site updated their message yesterday to include more info on what’s going on. You can view the full message by going to the BigCrumbs site. Here’s an excerpt:

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According to the current reports, the issue didn’t lie in any kind of hack into BigCrumbs system, rather hackers decided to penetrate the passwords of a number of BigCrumbs members, who had used easy passwords or whose passwords had been taken from a different breach.

It’s odd to me that there should be an effort to penetrate BigCrumbs accounts, of all things. I guess it would be possible for a hacker to steal the balance in the account by inputting their own address or bank account, but it still seems like small potatoes. Most people don’t have such huge balances in shopping portal accounts.

The update also mentions that BigCrumbs members will all need to update their passwords, and that there may be additional verifications needed when getting paid.

HT: Father-of-3 on Flyertalk

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