Square Sends Millions of Digital Receipts, Sometimes to the Wrong Person

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Teresa Smith, a horse trainer living outside Washington, hoped she could keep news of her impending divorce a secret—until mobile-payment firm Square blabbed about it to one of her friends

Teresa Smith hoped she could keep news of her impending divorce a secret, until Square Inc. blabbed about it to one of her friends.

The day after Ms. Smith, a horse trainer living outside Washington, paid the retainer for a local divorce attorney in late 2016, an acquaintance forwarded her an email full of details about the transaction. The attorney had swiped Ms. Smith’s credit card through a Square device, and the payments company automatically generated the receipt that wound up her friend’s inbox.

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