Redbox hard drive hacked to reveal customer information from 2,471 rentals
The bankrupt company may not see any consequences.
@arstechnica @foone You're famous!
@DrakkenZero @arstechnica that punk is everywhere!
@foone @DrakkenZero @arstechnica At least you weren't searching for documentation this time.
@foone after your earlier remark we were interested to see how the piece handled your name. we are pleased to see they didn't put any sort of disclaimer on it.
@ireneista @foone I too went to check and was pleased
@ireneista oh yeah, they handled it fine. I was more just talking about how it's funny this happens every time
@foone for sure :D
Redbox parent company Chicken Soup for the Soul filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Holy fuck i might have a chance to buy the movie rights I want
@arstechnica When does any company face any consequences?
@arstechnica the abandoned redbox at my local walgreens calling out to me
@arstechnica Companies that collect PII should have Data Privacy insurance to compensate customers for data breaches, and should have to fund escrow accounts to deal with data spills after they've gone out of business.
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Welp… I'm out. Done with this shit. Honestly, I'm not fucking with any more Redboxes. Last time I did, it spit a bunch of quarters at me.
@arstechnica "hacked" may be a bit strong of a word choice here.
"looked at and stumbled across" could be more accurate.
@arstechnica "Redbox parent company Chicken Soup for the Soul"
Sorry, what?
@arstechnica do I understand right that in ten years a rental kiosk rented only 2400 movies? It won't even pay back the electricity and space rental agreement with the stores. How the hell that chicken soup company paid all those millions for Redbox??
@arstechnica There's another story in the same source document: AKA believe that they could "strategically reprocess millions of Redbox credit card transactions covering instances where funds previously could not be captured during attempted extra day(s) rental charges". Talk about junk fees - strip-mining the shell of Redbox to run decade-old late charges to the tune of tens of millions of dollars is proper dystopian late stage capitalism sludge.
@arstechnica This was 1000% preventable: RedBox had their own team of field technicians and they could have said, "Hey, your last route is going to be to wipe these machines."
Hell, they could have wiped them with field techs from field staff aug services like FieldNation or adp's WorkMarket...they just didn't plan for it and, as a result, the customers suffer.
@arstechnica If you're a fan of Steven Seagal movies, that could really haunt you.