The Great Domino’s Caper!
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A recent bug in the Domino’s Pizza app meant that code-savvy customers could hack their way to a free (and delicious) pizza.
Paul Price, a UK cyber security consultant, managed to find a loophole when he discovered the app’s programming interface (API) wasn’t processing payments properly. Price then decided to tweak it (unmaliciously) to make the app think he had paid when he didn’t.
Payment went through, and he then wrote on his blog:
“I called the store and they confirm they have received my order and it will be delivered within the next 20 minutes.
My first thought: awesome. My second thought: b**p.”
Paul was wracked with guilt about the “Americano” affair. So when his pizza showed up, he explained himself.
“The pizza arrives and I tell the delivery driver there must of (sic) been a mistake with the order as I never entered any card details and wanted to pay with cash.
He happily leaves with £26 and my conscience is clean.”
Domino’s is safe from freeloaders now however, as they now use a monitored server to process digital transactions.