back to article Boomerang rebound: Site shut amid credit card securo-fears

Video game rental company Boomerang Rentals has pulled down the shutters on its websites amidst unconfirmed concerns that it have may have suffered a security breach that spilled customers' credit card details. Boomerang's homepage has been "down for maintenance" since Sunday. The move followed multiple customers reporting …

  1. clocKwize

    If they are using sage/world pay, those providers I doubt leak credit card information, and i think they are both redirect payment providers, so card details aren't taken on their customers server.. so I don't know how this would happen?

    If they do offer solutions where its tunneled through their customers server, they've probably stored them in some form (naughty: database, stupid: logs)

    1. Lyndon Hills 1

      WorldPay

      I don't know about Sage, but that is definitely the case for WorldPay. The customer enters their card details on the WorldPay site, so should never be seen on the merchant site.

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