{"id":153431,"date":"2025-10-30T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153431\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:03:09","slug":"man-jailed-after-hacking-into-brown-thomas-customer-accounts-taking-loyalty-points-and-using-them-to-buy-goods-for-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153431\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed after hacking into Brown Thomas customer accounts, taking loyalty points and using them to buy goods for himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File pic of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin. Photo: Robert Alexander\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d0f4743b-7512-4938-a25a-51a4dff2b6ec.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">File pic of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin. Photo: Robert Alexander\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An \u201carmchair thief\u201d hacked into a department store\u2019s customer accounts, took their loyalty points and used them to buy high-value goods for himself in a \u201csophisticated, devious\u201d cyber attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Matthew Ward (31) breached Brown Thomas and Arnotts\u2019 online security to steal thousands of euros worth of products including perfumes, shoes, jumpers, jackets, and an air fryer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File pic of Brown Thomas on Grafton Street in Dublin. Photo: Robert Alexander\/Getty Images An \u201carmchair thief\u201d hacked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[39078,79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-153431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-andrew-phelan","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115463494660397908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}