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Walmart Stored Value Cards Compromised
morcheeba writes "It appears that Walmart's pre-paid gift cards have been hacked. Customers are buying cards and finding that criminals have already emptied them of value. It seems someone has access to Walmart's database and/or registration data, and can create clones of recently activated cards. (via engadget)"
bored geek employed at Walmart
You don't have to be a bored geek. Plenty of people want to hurt Walmart. Walmart is a prime target, partially because they are a huge business, but also because:
Minimum wage pay, union busting, illegal anti-competitive behavior against local busines, discrimanatory against women in their merit practices-- piece of shit company.
NOTE! not all card scams were by hackers.
FYI : The employee in Michigan cited in the article worked at Pontiac branch off of I-75 and was one of the few black cashiers remaining that had not yet stolen and been fired.
She basically swapped cards with people when they bought cards and was quickly caught.
Also note : the Pontiac branch off of I-75 is the only Walmart in Michigan that has never once made a profit for the year and has been subject to numerous robberies (again by gangs of blacks) rampant shoplifting, and other issues from the rich "diverse" community near Pontiac
a couple SUCCESSFUL robberies of money room got well over 50K BTW.
Pontiac has huge prisons, countless halfway homes, welfare caseload neighborhoods and is as dark as inner city Detroit. Its a hellish place to be near and a stupid place to put a Walmart. Hudsons in downtown Detroit closed years ago citing more shoplifting per day than in sales revenue profit.
Walmart announced they are shutting th Pontiac Walmart down and moving it east three miles towards the whiter neighborhoods near Rochester hills and away from the bus lines, despite putting it closer to two other HIGHLY PROFITABLE Walmarts.
Welcome to capitalism. Take the heat or get out of the fire.
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Good. Why is everyone acting like this is a bad thing?