‘My wife tried to order some clothes tonight. When she logged in, she was in someone else’s account … Now someone’s charged her card’

“At the moment some stranger is in her account as they keep adding things to her basket and she keeps taking them out.”

Reg reader last night spoke of the horrifying moment he realized an online store used by his wife was mixing up some of its online customers, allowing people to gain access to some strangers’ personal information and order carts. In what appears to have been a server-side caching blunder, it was possible on Wednesday to click around the site, and whether logged in or not, see pages belonging to others, complete with their details and orders, we’re told.

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