Boomerang Rentals May Have Been Hacked
A game rental service in the United Kingdom may have been subjected to an online attack that has compromised credit and debit card information. Boomerang Rentals, which sprang to prominence in 2012 when Amazon’s LoveFilm service ceased to provide video games for rent, received a number of messages over the weekend from concerned customers who believed that the service’s security measured may have been compromised after unauthorized payments were made through credit cards associated with accounts from the website. This was followed up by threads on both Reddit and NeoGAF where multiple users reported similar problems, all with the common theme that the cards used had all been associated with Boomerang Rentals at some point in the last two years. Users have reported unauthorized payments starting from January 4 and some have even reported problems from as recently as yesterday. It is important to take into account the fact that only a small number of customers have reported problems so far but the evidence does point towards the information having