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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)"
The date of the article was June 10, 2004. Maybe this was in another time zone or something so it was more recent than I thought?
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
What kind of geek buys their computer gear at Wal-Mart? I mean come on, even Best Buy would have been a step up. I bet he'd even opt for the Extended Service Plan. Either way, the culprit will be set for life when it comes to toilet paper and snacks.
Man, I thought I was doing well without having to RTFA, but you made me read it anyway.
The injustice is that you now get *good* karma!
Cogito, ergo sig.
The cracker must be low on paper towels and socks.
law enforcement at the highest levels possible, to rectumfy the problem
Looks like the cuplrit is going to really get it in the ass...
From the parent: A corporate spokesman says the company, " is working with law enforcement at the highest levels possible, to RECTUMFY the problem and catch the people responsible." (all caps mine)
I wonder just what rectumfying is. Maybe it's like "radidzomai" in Greek (to be buggered by a raddish), or the Tossed Salad Man. I'll bet rectumfying would deter anyone else from hacking gift cards!
-Colin
they probably had their code written by a poor teenage girl in honduras who was getting whipped by a mean guard while she was trying to compile. I can just imagine it:
"more linking errors??? You are going to get it now BITCH!!!!" *whip* *whip*
As you can plainly see from the IP records, that was obviously not my post. It was made only minutes from the last Anonymous Coward posting, but was from several states away.
Investigators are looking into the matter.
The guy who thought up gift cards/certificates was an evil genious. At what point does someone as a business person say "maybe people are willing to exchange their real money for store credit so that they have a non-cash gift to give?" I can't imagin thinking "I want my money to be acceptable at less places for the sake of forcing a friend or family member to buy something they don't want or need".
I'm a fan of capitalism, so I don't want them to ban gift cards, but I really hate them. Damn you, you evil genious!
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Why do people refer to Walm*rt with a star in the name?
Well, they might be using the star as a sphinctor symbol. Yessir. Heck, we used to put 'em by people's names on memos to denote sphinctorhood.
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