New Security Concerns Raised for RedRose Digital Payment Systems

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Author(s)
Cornish, L.
Publication language
English
Date published
28 Nov 2017
Publisher
Devex
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Comms, media & information, Data security

CANBERRA — Two players in the cash payments sector are squaring off after one company penetrated the other’s cyber security, accessing beneficiary records of a leading NGO, and revealing what they claim is a serious security flaw.

Emerson Tan, chief executive officer for Mautinoa Technologies — a self-acknowledged emerging competitor in the digital payments space — informed Devex last week that his organization had found a lack of security in an active RedRose deployment managed by Catholic Relief Services in West Africa. Through the security breach, they could access personal, economic, geographic, and photographic information about beneficiaries, which could be downloaded for offline analysis.