Catie McLeod, The Guardian:
Trump Mobile said in a statement that it was investigating the
issue — “with the assistance of independent cybersecurity
professionals” — in which the full names, addresses and phone
numbers of people who filled out preorder forms appeared to be
exposed. […]Jonathan Soma, a programmer and professor at New York’s Columbia
University, reviewed the code that the Australian had uncovered
and copied from the Trump Mobile website. Soma said the website
used a common e-commerce model, in which every potential order
added another “1” to a list, the total of which had reached 27,224
possible pre-orders on the available information.But he said the code reflected the last step before payment,
meaning those who didn’t proceed with the purchase were also
recorded in the data, even those people who have abandoned their
carts without paying the deposit, so the true number of preorders
was likely to be even lower.“I probably started three phone purchases and didn’t buy any of
them,” he said.
Auric Goldfinger is surely rolling over in his grave.
