Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS and other major retailers had an almost passable argument for blocking their customers from using Apple Pay, Apple’s nascent but uber-hot mobile wallet solution.
After all, the retailers — more than 50 in all — are part of a group called the Merchants Customer Exchange (MCX), which is working on its own competing mobile payment system CurrentC. That seemed reasonable.
At least until today.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that the CurrentC pilot program — the thing hasn't even officially launched yet — had suffered a bit a of a breach, and now email addresses belonging to early-adopter customers had possibly fallen into the hands of bad guys. Read more...
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