Lax Security Blamed for Hack of 7-Eleven’s Mobile Payments Service in Japan

By:

Dan Balaban

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Japan’s popular 7-Eleven convenience store chain reported Thursday a major hack of its QR code-based mobile-payments app, but the breach appears to be due to poorly designed security protections in the app.

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