If you use this popular shopping app, your personal data might’ve been exposed

Internet commerce has exploded over the past year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which confined millions of people around the world to their homes for months on end in addition to shuttering all kinds of shops and commercial enterprises. That forced consumers to rely more than ever on the delivery of goods to their homes that they were unable to pick up in person -- a boon, of course, for Internet giants like Amazon.

An Internet behemoth like Amazon, of course, is able to handle an influx of new customers and all the commercial and security imperatives that come in tandem with that influx. Smaller companies, apparently, not so much. Case in point: The Swedish fintech company Klarna acknowledged a data breach in recent days, one that inspired users of the company's buy now pay later service to flock to social media and complain that they'd somehow gotten access to strangers' personal data.