Hacker says USPS ignored serious security flaw for over a year

The US Postal Service (USPS) ignored a security flaw affecting millions of its registered website users for over a year until a researcher took his discovery to prominent blogger Brian Krebs, it has been alleged. According to Krebs’s write-up, the unnamed researcher contacted him a week ago with news of a weakness he’d uncovered in the USPS.com ‘Informed Visibility’ API.

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