Racking up hundreds to thousand of dollars on your mobile phone or data account is not unusual. We’ve heard of similar situations already since anything is actually vulnerable to security hacks especially if one is not careful. The latest case is that of a California woman who is filing a complaint against Google for its inadequate security. Because of security flaws, her Google Play Store account has been exploited by hackers. The result: thousands of dollars of unauthorized charges.
In addition, Orange County’s Susan Harvery is accusing Google of refusing to properly give her reimbursements. According to Harvey, Google promised to refund the money after backing down. Unfortunately, the tech giant has not yet paid up the woman.
Harvey filed a lawsuit in the Eastern California District Court. According to her, she received exrta charges after downloading a free game from the Play Store. She claimed that she was then upgraded to the full version without her knowledge and that between March 2013 and August 2014, her credit card was charged 650 times without asking for permission or notification. These charges reached thousands of dollars according to the complainant.
She claimed to have already done the necessary actions like contact the police, game publisher, Google, and her bank. The transactions were considered unauthorized and must be reimbursed as stated in the lawsuit. Google did promise to reimburse but no payment has been made yet. She’s claiming that hackers stole her information from the servers of Google. She’s also accusing the makers of the game Chocolate Factory for data breach laws, unfair competition, privacy and violations, negligence, and invasion of privacy.
Meanwhile, Google has not made a comment yet regarding this issue.
VIA: The Register
17 months with “unauthorized” purchases. You’d think she’d have changed her password(s) shortly after the first time.