{"id":53859,"date":"2012-06-29T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=53859"},"modified":"2012-06-29T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T12:03:33","slug":"groupon-exposes-customer-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/53859-groupon-exposes-customer-emails.html","title":{"rendered":"Groupon exposes customer emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A problem in Groupon\u2019s email link encryption has made some Groupon members&#8217; emails visible through Google search.<\/p>\n<p>When \u201caddx\u201d is added into a Google search term featuring Groupon, the results expose many users\u2019 email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time the issue has occurred, where Shinji Kuwayama, Groupon\u2019s director of engineering, said that the email addresses were made public because some subscribers had \u201cpasted their deals into publicly-crawlable pages around the Web\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The problem seems to be have remedied for now, although some users say that some modified search terms still find the information.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/06\/28\/groupon-exposes-customer-emails-in-google-results-again\/?grcc=33333Z98ZtrendingZ0Z0Z0Z0Z0\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53541-kim-dotcom-taunts-us-government-through-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kim Dotcom taunts US government through Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53305-twitter-brought-to-its-knees-by-small-bug.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter brought to its knees by small bug<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53421-microsoft-surface-fail-goes-viral.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft Surface fail goes viral<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53079-kony-2012-threatens-lawsuit-for-online-parody.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kony 2012 threatens lawsuit for online parody<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/53187-apple-sued-over-4g-claims.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple sued over 4G claims<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User email addresses have slipped out of the group-buying website\u2019s service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":53865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2228,12949,12951],"class_list":["post-53859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-groupon","tag-groupon-email","tag-shinji-kuwayama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}