A retailer left their website open to public editing. Customers rewrote product descriptions, slashed prices, added fake items. Nobody noticed for hours. That's not a security failure. That's a management failure wearing a security costume.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361034088/chaos-after-auckland-store-leaves-website-open-public-edit
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