Google has restored its wallet service on 14
February, after battling criticism for being unsafe.
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Osama Bedier, vice President, Google Wallet
and Payments,
wrote on the company’s blogging site:
“We restored the ability to issue new prepaid
cards to the Wallet.
“In addition, we issued a fix that prevents an
existing prepaid card from being re-provisioned to another
user.
While we’re not aware of any abuse of prepaid
cards or the Wallet PIN resulting from these recent reports, we
took this step as a precaution to ensure the security of our Wallet
customers.
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By GlobalData“If you are unable to access your previous
prepaid card balance for any reason, please contact
our toll-free
support for assistance.”
His response followed on from an earlier post
in which he defended the Google Wallet service, after a senior
engineer at a security firm developed an app that was able to crack
the four-digit PIN of the wallet.
