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You really need to read the PCI-DSS standard before you make comments like that.

Rather than me point out exactly why what you just said was completely wrong, I suggest you download it from here:

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-1....

At the very least, read requirement 4. The simple fact is that they were allowing customers to enter their credit card details and submit that data over HTTP.

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If they were using stripe how did they pass details through onto HTTP? as far as I remember their webhook won't even communicate with an unsecure page. They must be using some other payment gateway.

I sure hope they don't gather the data via calls to Stripe's API then push it out via HTTP (and vice versa!)

Oh brother - surely they weren't storing that data themselves?!?

Got it, thanks for the link.

It was in my original post!

I didn't follow every link you included, and didn't expect to argue about this – also, I didn't realize this was your post, my bad!

You can ignore my comment about the /payments page, I'll assume you checked that, so yeah, that's insane if you can update payment information on an insecure page.

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