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)"

Comments

Gift Vouchers are stupid.

[Organized Konfusion]

A: Hey happy birthday/christmas/eid here's $50 gift voucher you can only spend at wal*mart
B: Hey happy birthday/christmas/eid here's $50 you can only spend on crack, whores or beer.

What would you prefer?

Re:Old adage..

[MedHead]

Minimum wage pay, union busting, illegal anti-competitive behavior against local busines, discrimanatory against women in their merit practices--

So they pay minimum wage... that's their choice. Nobody is really forcing you to work there. I know, in small towns, the evil store takes away all other jobs and forces you to work in their store - my counter to that argument would be to question the pay rate of the original occupation. If it's a small town, you're probably not getting much over minimum wage anyway.

Union busting? Unions are terrible, and a waste of time. I worked in a union-backed retail store, and the only thing I found the union did was take my money from my paycheck every week. I tried using it, and the union was, and continues to be, worthless. I applaud Wal*Mart for being union-free.

How can you be "anti-competitive"? I don't know what you mean, mind explaining?

I have no experiences with the discriminatory behavior, so I can't really comment much on your final statement. In my area, there are more women working in Wal*Mart than there are men, so I don't know how true your statement is in terms of the entire company. Your area may have problems, but I would link that more to the poor managerial staff, and not Wal*Mart in general. But as I said, I don't have experience with that, so I can't comment much.

Re:Corporate Policy?

[adzoox]

"Walmart systematically ruins local economies"

That's the troll statement of the day.

The new Walmart in my town added 38 MILLION a year to the tax base - usually does when one moves to town - prevents taxes from being raised.

As for the little guy that is claimed "to be put out of business by Walmart" - I say - if you can't take the heat - get out the kitchen.

Walmarts are cleaner, cheaper, and better staffed and employ more people than the US government now! Do they have problems yes - some of the problems you mentioned? possibly. But your statements are FUD and some of them untrue.