200,000 S'pore Starbucks customers' data leaked, info sold o...

SINGAPORE - Some 200,000 Singaporean Starbucks customers' data were found by The Straits Times to have been breached and put up for sale on an online forum since Sept 10. The affected customers received an e-mail from the coffee chain on Friday notifying them of a data breach that compromised their personal information, including their names, home and e-mail addresses. A spokesman for Starbucks Singapore said the coffee chain was made aware of the data breach only on Sept 13, adding that the customers affected were those who had accounts and had previously made a transaction via its app or online store. In the e-mail seen by ST, customers were informed that their credit card data has not been compromised as Starbucks does not store that data. Other details related to its customer loyalty programme, including stored values, rewards and credits, remain intact as well, it said. "We hav...