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Chowbus was hacked!  

https://www.cyberscoop.com/chowbus-breac...inxin-wen/
If you depend on phone apps like Chowbus to buy food, think it twice after reading this article.

Two months after securing a $33 million funding round from investors, food delivery startup Chowbus is grappling with a breach that observers say exposed personal data on hundreds of thousands of customers.
Customers reported receiving an email on Monday from Chowbus containing reams of customer data, including names, phone numbers and mailing and email addresses. The file is said to contain more than 800,000 rows.
In an email to customers, Chowbus CEO Linxin Wen said the data had been “illegally accessed” and dumped online, but he did not say how. Credit card numbers were not compromised, Wen said.

They claim your credit card is safe but can you be totally sure about that?

Have I Been Pwned, a data breach reporting service, said the data included 444,000 unique email addresses. Fifty-eight percent of the total dataset was already reported compromised by Have I Been Pwned.

So you could be sending dangerous spam to many users around the world unwillingly...