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Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender
snydeq writes "Hacker group Rex Mundi has made good on its promise to publish thousands of loan-applicant records it swiped from AmeriCash Advance after the payday lender refused to fork over between $15,000 and $20,000 as an extortion fee — or, in Rex Mundi's terms, an 'idiot tax.' The group announced on June 15 that it was able to steal AmeriCash's customer data because the company had left a confidential page unsecured on one of its servers. 'This page allows its affiliates to see how many loan applicants they recruited and how much money they made,' according to the group's post on dpaste.com. 'Not only was this page unsecured, it was actually referenced in their robots.txt file.'"
If you walked by a car, saw there was a wad of twenties on the front seat AND that the window was open...are you authorized to take it?
No. Not under any circumstance.
If you happen across a website that has some link to people's credit cards and the CCW codes and other personal information, are you authorized to take them, let alone use them?
No. Not under any circumstance.
A reasonable person would either leave it alone or do what they could to notify the site's owner, or, "dude, you left a wad of twenties in plain view"
You don't need some god damned fucking law to behave in an honorable and respectable manner....well, maybe you do.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.