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Purchased a OnePlus phone? Yeah, your credit card might have been stolen.

January 19, 2018

Things aren’t looking so hot for approximately 40,000 OnePlus customers. And no, not because they’ll probably have to wait until June to upgrade to the OnePlus 6. 

It turns out that the company’s website was hacked, and in the process credit card numbers and other payment information was likely stolen. 

According to a statement issued by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, “a malicious script was injected into the payment page code to sniff out credit card info while it was being entered.”

What this means in practice is that, from roughly mid November of 2017 to January 11, 2018, any customer who put their credit card into OnePlus.net could have had it lifted by hackers. Some customers are already reporting fraudulent chargesRead more…

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Source: Mashable | Purchased a OnePlus phone? Yeah, your credit card might have been stolen.

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