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Payments Vaults Evolving as Retailers Prioritize a Secure Consumer Experience

February 16, 2023
Aavgo Breach Reveals Hotel Guests’ Personal Data
Security & Fraud // July 17, 2019

A security lapse at a hotel management startup has exposed hotel bookings and guests’ personal information. Aavgo, a hospitality tech company based in San Francisco, secured a server it had left online without a password after TechCrunch reached out to the firm. The server, which...

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Payments Vaults Evolving as Retailers Prioritize a Secure Consumer Experience

February 16, 2023
Payments vaults are moving to the forefront of many businesses’ customer experience strategies. Joseph Meuse, vice president of product management at Spreedly, told PYMNTS in a recent interview that vaulting has always been done in some form or another — it’s simply the concept of storing a card. In their current form, these secure apps […]

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Aavgo Breach Reveals Hotel Guests’ Personal Data

July 17, 2019
A security lapse at a hotel management startup has exposed hotel bookings and guests’ personal information. Aavgo, a hospitality tech company based in San Francisco, secured a server it had left online without a password after TechCrunch reached out to the firm. The server, which was open for three weeks, was discovered by security researcher […]