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Domino's Pizza delivers user details to spammers

I’ll have a garlic bread, a Supreme and a side of privacy breach by slack partners

Domino's Pizza's Australian outpost has blamed a partner for a security breach, after angry customers went online complaining about finding themselves on spam lists.

The company owned up to the breach after Redditor “Pinchie McPinch” complained about receiving e-mails from “Sarah” and “Jess”.

What tipped Pinchie that the data may have come from the pizza chain was that the spammers were referring to his/her favourite Domino's locations to make the approaches look more plausible.

Domino's acknowledged the breach and said it is investigating what happened. The company blamed the breach on an unnamed “former” supplier.

The company's statement says the breach was limited to “email addresses, names and store suburbs (related to pizza orders) … at no time has customer financial information (including credit cards) or passwords, been accessed or compromised.”

The statement added that the company will “work closely with the relevant privacy authorities in Australia.”

Electronic Frontiers Australia board member Peter Tonoli isn't satisfied with Domino's handling of the situation:

It seems the unnamed supplier was a trans-Tasman operation, since last week similar complaints emerged in New Zealand.

The Register has asked Domino's for comment. And a Supreme for lunch, plus a Coke Zero.* ®

*Not really.

Update: A Domino's spokesperson has sent a statement to The Register which mostly reproduces what is on its Website, but which confirms it has notified the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner of he breach.

 

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