LivingSocial don't process the credit cards until after the deal is closed.
It wouldn't take 10 minutes to have an engineer interrogate the database to raise any orders that have a quantity greater than 1 and/or a total amount more than $10.
To claim that LivingSocial has been "hacked" is sensationalism. While I think it was a low blow, I can understand why a non-technical CEO would try this stunt but I'd have expected more sense from a technical person who should know how easy it would be to see this happening on LivingSocial's back end.
It wouldn't take 10 minutes to have an engineer interrogate the database to raise any orders that have a quantity greater than 1 and/or a total amount more than $10.
To claim that LivingSocial has been "hacked" is sensationalism. While I think it was a low blow, I can understand why a non-technical CEO would try this stunt but I'd have expected more sense from a technical person who should know how easy it would be to see this happening on LivingSocial's back end.