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Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings)

Posted by timothy on from the pineapple-and-olives-kinky dept.

stephendavion (2872091) writes Hackers who compromised the servers of Domino's Pizza have demanded a ransom of €30,000 or they will publish the records of more than 600,000 customers – including their favourite toppings. "Earlier this week, we hacked our way into the servers of Domino's Pizza France and Belgium, who happen to share the same vulnerable database," wrote Rex Mundi [the name the perpetrators go by]. "And boy, did we find some juicy stuff in there!"

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  1. Improper use of [sic] in TFA by aviators99 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, it's a British article, but they put "[sic]" in a quote that contains "favorite" as opposed to "favourite", I guess without taking into account that the perpetrators might be American. On the other hand, while typing this post in Chrome, the browser marked "favourite" as a misspelling :-)

    1. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's not improper use, all it means is that it has been transcribed exactly as written. It doesn't matter if the original authors are American, it's there to inform the intended readership that the potentially unexpected spelling is as per the original text.

      If you're going to be a grammar pedant at least get it right.

    2. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by amalcolm · · Score: 1

      in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written

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    3. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by aviators99 · · Score: 1

      Yes, but:

      The notation's usual purpose is to inform the reader that any errors or apparent errors in the transcribed material do not arise from errors in the course of the transcription, and the errors have been repeated intentionally, i.e., that they are reproduced exactly as set down by the original writer or printer.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      But not worth arguing over.

    4. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by Thanshin · · Score: 2

      in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written

      Also: "Yes, it was actually written like that in the original. It makes me sic."

    5. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by amias · · Score: 2

      il ya de francais ici , vous et un clod insensitive

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    6. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by cellocgw · · Score: 1

      il ya de[sic] francais[sic] ici , vous et[sic] un[sic] clod[sic] insensitive[sic]

      FTFY :-)

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    7. Re:Improper use of [sic] in TFA by Dishevel · · Score: 1

      So ... Umm. You just pasted that entry in without actually reading it?

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  2. Sad ... by gstoddart · · Score: 2

    And here I thought the Europeans had a much richer food history than to have actually ever ordered pizza from Domino's.

    You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.

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    1. Re:Sad ... by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 1

      You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.

      Yeah, but Dorcia doesn't deliver, and isn't open at 1am. Plus, it's a safer gamble than a prawn biryani.

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    2. Re:Sad ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.

      Geography fail. Europe is not close to Chicago.

      < getting brick oven ready...>

    3. Re:Sad ... by Thanshin · · Score: 1

      In most of what I've known of Europe, there are two kinds of pizza:
      - Italian restaurant pizza: The one that will be nice if the restaurant is ok and only really good if the restaurant is actually in Italia.
      - Fast food pizza: Domino's, Pizza hut, etc. One interesting thing about fast food pizza is that a lot of people prefer the American brands, with thicker, greasier pizzas. The other interesting thing about fast food pizza is that it bears little resemblance to actual pizza.

      When you've got a dish with three core ingredients: mass, cheese and tomato; and you change all three to a different mass, a different cheese and some kind of red paste, it's a different dish.

      I enjoy both kinds of pizza just as I enjoy true hamburgers and the meat sandwich you can eat at a McDonald's.

    4. Re:Sad ... by Thanshin · · Score: 1

      Prawn biryani can be a safe bet. Depending on what you're betting on getting.

    5. Re:Sad ... by StikyPad · · Score: 1

      It's Italy. Which makes sense, since the Mediterranean and near-east are known for flatbread, even if some of the toppings we put on it today originated in the US (like pineapple).

      Also the word "soccer" was coined in the UK, not the US. We just like to take credit for everything, apparently.

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    6. Re:Sad ... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      There's various great places famous for their kitchen in Europe. French kitchen is world famous. Italian kitchen gave us pizza and pasta (could someone silence the Chinese dissenters over there? Thanks!). Spain gave us paella. And the Germans all kinds of sausages.

      And the English ... umm... they brought the napkins.

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    7. Re:Sad ... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

      just as I enjoy true hamburgers and the meat sandwich you can eat at a McDonald's.

      *shudder* Oh, wow ... that stuff is just nasty.

      Got completely disgusted by that over a decade ago. Couldn't possibly do it again.

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    8. Re:Sad ... by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Also the word "soccer" was coined in the UK, not the US. We just like to take credit for everything, apparently.

      Oh no, that's the irony of the whole thing. Credit for the word "soccer" was forced upon us, mostly by brits and their other former colonies. We also know how to spell "Aluminum".

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    9. Re:Sad ... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

      You're not far from where potatoes were invented.

      Hmmm ... likely an entire hemisphere, so practically just around the corner.

      I bet you still eat freedom fries.

      I have never eaten 'freedom' fries. Pommes frites, bitches.

      Where do you think Americans got their food culture from?

      Same place they get the rest of their culture. Television.

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    10. Re:Sad ... by ThatsDrDangerToYou · · Score: 1

      just as I enjoy true hamburgers and the meat sandwich you can eat at a McDonald's.

      *shudder* Oh, wow ... that stuff is just nasty.

      Got completely disgusted by that over a decade ago. Couldn't possibly do it again.

      Well, if you are sick of living, you can try the purveyors of pretty much the best damn burger you will ever have: at Five Guys. You will still feel like crap afterwards, probably because the fries they give you are enough to clog the arteries of an olympic marathoner, but sooooo gooooood... And no, I have no affiliation with them. They seem to be all over the US and also in Canada.

    11. Re:Sad ... by KozmoStevnNaut · · Score: 1

      Around here, there's a third category, the middle eastern-owned pizzeria. They make decent enough pizzas that are completely indistinguishable from the ones at competing pizzerias, since they all get their ingredients from the same place. And you can get a cheap greasy kebab to go with it.

      I'm firmly in the "Italians make the best pizzas" camp, and I firmly believe that my favorite pizzeria is one of the best in the world. Run by Italians, with a proper wood-fired oven, a TV that plays nothing but Italian soccer matches, surprisingly good and affordable Italian wine for sale and a uniquely Italian "hands waving above the head, prego prego, ciao, buona sera" atmosphere. A pizza always takes "20 minutti", no matter how busy the place is.

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    12. Re:Sad ... by MrNemesis · · Score: 2

      As a brit with an italian SO, that's about the size of it. In London at least there are lots of good (and some great) pizzerias, almost all of which are owned and run by italians. The superb Franco Manca in Brixton is quite probably the best pizza I've ever had, and this includes some truly excellent pizza restaurants in and around Naples (pizza napoli is, to me, the only style of pizza worth emulating; the SO is from rome and dislikes the "local" style of pizza as well). That said, they're also one of the few places in London where you can consistently get proper fresh mozarella (I can virtually guarantee it's a completely different beast to all the mozzarella you've ever had). Residents of Campania will rarely eat a mozarella more than a day old.

      Never been too keen on the other styles of pizza - as you mention, I find chicago style too bready and too greasy and bears quite a resemblance to pizza sicilia. Pizza romana/lazio is, once again, too thick for me. Sure, there's plenty of places that do perfectly passable thick-crust pizzas but not really to my taste. When I eat pizza I want to taste the ingredients, not bread.

      And then you have places like pizza hut and domino's. Not only do they have a heavy, pre-cooked breadlike crust but they also use heavily processed ingredients, and unsurprisingly they're very popular with people who are more used to the taste of processed foods and ready meals than people who make pizza with fresh ingredients. Given that they don't require fresh food and can be easily thrown together and into an oven, they're also ubiquitous and cheap since they're so much easier to store and prepare and so many people think of this as pizza than the traditional styles.

      That said, we're snobby enough to keep a sourdough culture in the fridge so we can throw some pizza dough together and have a passable pizza from scratch within an hour if we like. Damn, I'm hungry now.

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    13. Re:Sad ... by dragon-file · · Score: 1

      You're not far from where potatoes were invented. I bet you still eat freedom fries. Sometimes I feel like having regular Italian pizza, and sometimes I want some Domino’s. Besides, European food is (undeservedly) notorious for sucking, except in the south of Europe. Where do you think Americans got their food culture from?

      Can't say I've ever had freedom fries... are they similar to french fries or is that just the PC way of saying it? Honestly, they were french fries for years, if you're offended by the name, deal with it... we shouldn't change names because they offend a few people.

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    14. Re:Sad ... by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      And here I thought the Europeans had a much richer food history than to have actually ever ordered pizza from Domino's.

      You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.

      Technically, a pizza is just a flatbread. And that's in Italian, for the Greek name for flatbread is... pita. (Granted, the bread is actually made with different ingredients, so Italian pizza and Greek pita are not substitutable - but they do refer to flatbread).

      It was the Italian immigrants in Chicago that decided to make American pizza based on what bread they had available at the time, resulting in the good ol' American favorite.

      All of which are completely different food items. I had real Italian pizza in Italy, and I loved it (fresh made!). But it doesn't mean I can't like American pizza either - both are really quite different. Though, it has ruined my appetite for American "thin crust" pizza - the Italians make it with a dough that's firm, but not rock hard after baking that really makes it nice. (And ignoring the places where it ends up like pizza stuff on a cracker, ugh).

      Then again, there are enough American expats and tourists in Europe that the database could be filled up with Americans, Canadians, and other people who grew up with American pizza just missing a taste of home.

      Hell, there are McDonalds in Europe as well, but not as many of them. I just figured that it was tourists and expats wanting a taste of home.

    15. Re:Sad ... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

      Can't say I've ever had freedom fries... are they similar to french fries or is that just the PC way of saying it?

      Sadly, this is what happened when France didn't want to join the coalition of the willing with Bush and he was in full-on screeching "you're either with us or you're against us".

      A Canadian politician got into trouble for calling it the coalition of idiots.

      But given what was actually accomplished in Iraq, one has to agree with these sentiments, and remember that Bush was doing it without any good basis.

      Honestly, they were french fries for years, if you're offended by the name, deal with it... we shouldn't change names because they offend a few people.

      No, it was butt-hurt Americans who were upset because people wouldn't blindly follow them into Iraq on flimsy evidence (which was subsequently proven to be false) and very sketchy reasoning.

      It speaks more about the people who renamed it than anything.

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    16. Re:Sad ... by dragon-file · · Score: 1

      good to know... all the more reason to continue calling them french fries.

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    17. Re:Sad ... by jratcliffe · · Score: 1

      France is McDonalds's number three market globally (after the US and Japan). On a per capita basis, it has more McDonalds than any European country other than Austria.

    18. Re:Sad ... by MrNemesis · · Score: 1

      Real, proper, mozzarella di bufala campana, even spelt correctly this time :) There's a couple of other restaurants that get it fresh as well but they're very pricey.

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    19. Re:Sad ... by pjt33 · · Score: 1

      The English don't even have their own word for "style of cooking", and use the French cuisine. But one area where English cuisine excels is desserts. A English restaurant will have two or three times as many desserts as a Spanish one, and they'll all be tempting.

    20. Re:Sad ... by HiThere · · Score: 1

      Pizza (of a sort) was invented in Palestine when the Roman soldiers couldn't get levened bread during Passover. Granted, it wasn't much like the modern pizza.

      Perhaps the modern pizza was invented in Chicago. Certainly one variety has that name.

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    21. Re:Sad ... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      They need to compensate what came before it.

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    22. Re:Sad ... by tompaulco · · Score: 1

      Of course, in France, they just call them "fries", (technically "frites"). And eat them with mayonnaise.

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  3. they'd better pay by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Funny

    or the names of those sick and twisted anchovy lovers will be revealed to the world, and where will they hide their faces then?

    1. Re:they'd better pay by MiniMike · · Score: 1

      where will they hide their faces then?

      Probably in another pizza.

    2. Re:they'd better pay by rubycodez · · Score: 1

      only if its with pepperoni. *drool* I mean, they'd better pay or weirdos will be exposed!

    3. Re:they'd better pay by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Only if you insist in wearing those silly colorful shirts while doing so.

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    4. Re:they'd better pay by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Then you better eat no pineapple.

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    5. Re:they'd better pay by dragon-file · · Score: 1

      I was going to say in cans of anchovies but I like your pizza idea better.

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  4. favorite toppings? by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 2

    Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings, I'm no sure how this is worth ten cents, let alone what they are asking for. Other than the embarrassment of having inadequate security. But that's already out of the bag.

    1. Re:favorite toppings? by Sique · · Score: 1

      Some hypocritical healthy food advocates might be revealed. Think about Jamie Oliver choosing American Style with Extra Cheese.

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    2. Re:favorite toppings? by Thanshin · · Score: 1

      Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings,

      ...

      Fried panda, Onions and peperoni!

    3. Re:favorite toppings? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      And especially not the "internal" remarks.

      I worked long at the call center for an ISP. Or, as we called it, the "nuts' favorite call in show". We made it a game to come up with fitting nicknames for pretty much every halfway regular caller. Because, well, the regular callers are also usually the more obnoxious ones. Part of it sounded like the lineup for Dick Tracy villains. We had the "mumbler", the "breather", the "shrill bimbo", the "Kazakh" (at first we thought he's Russian, only to find out when we got a Russian speaking coworker that he only put on a fake accent to sound "dangerous"). And we had our lineup of Superheroes. There was "Mr. Dontgetit", "Mrs. Iknowiknow" and "The General" (he usually lamented how he fought for the country and still gets no recognition). And a whole host of people I don't remember for one reason or another. Time is a blessing, it makes you forget...

      Now imagine if the database of these people, along with not too flattering entries, got published. I shudder at the thought.

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    4. Re:favorite toppings? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Great. Now I'm hungry.

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    5. Re:favorite toppings? by Sique · · Score: 1

      Mozarella, salami, ham, onions, pepperoni.

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    6. Re:favorite toppings? by operagost · · Score: 1

      Here lies andy; peperony and chease

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    7. Re:favorite toppings? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 1

      No - Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, Anchovies

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    8. Re:favorite toppings? by ThatsDrDangerToYou · · Score: 1

      Is that pre-tenderized baby seal? Clubbed only with certifed Zircon encrusted baby seal clubs?

    9. Re:favorite toppings? by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 1

      Greasy enough so it exits faster that in entered.

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    10. Re:favorite toppings? by dragon-file · · Score: 1

      Dominoes has a salami option.... actually quite good imho.

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    11. Re:favorite toppings? by Wintermute__ · · Score: 1

      No - Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, Anchovies

      You forgot the funyuns and skittles.

  5. give them what they want. by nimbius · · Score: 2

    Whatever they want, give it to them, because if your personal information is among their ransom then its all over. It doesnt matter what your toppings were, or when you ordered, or even why. Europe, and all the world, will know you to have intentionally and willfully placed an order for the worst american export since George Bush. Rumours will spread about your love for country music and before you know it, your allegance to nascar, cold budweiser, and jean shorts will be all but fact in the minds of your brethren.

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    1. Re:give them what they want. by dragon-file · · Score: 1

      Whatever they want, give it to them, because if your personal information is among their ransom then its all over. It doesnt matter what your toppings were, or when you ordered, or even why. Europe, and all the world, will know you to have intentionally and willfully placed an order for the worst american export since George Bush. Rumours will spread about your love for country music and before you know it, your allegance to nascar, cold budweiser, and jean shorts will be all but fact in the minds of your brethren.

      Meh. I can live with that....

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  6. Draw a unicorn on the box by jfdavis668 · · Score: 2

    Some politician must have requested that they draw a unicorn on the box.

    1. Re:Draw a unicorn on the box by dragon-file · · Score: 1

      Are you kidding?! That would make him hip and cool... he's probably funding the hackers in that scenario.

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  7. Paying the ransom won't help... by Ragnar79 · · Score: 1

    If they pay the ransom or not the data is still compromised and customer will have to be notified.

  8. Hackers limit /. headlines to 80 characters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    [Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) Fo]
    ^^^ 80 chars max!

    I don't understand how in a modern-day system there can still be bugs like this.

    (My comment was intentionally written in eighty characters to avoid being trunca

    1. Re:Hackers limit /. headlines to 80 characters by kav2k · · Score: 2

      The RSS headline is even more hilarious.

      Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) For €3

  9. Re:Good hack by fisted · · Score: 1

    I bet somewhere is an *actual* hilariously rich nigerian princess sending legitimate emails out of the good of her heart. Sucks to be her.

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  10. Re:Good hack by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    Actually, a friend of mine is "blessed" with a last name that contains the local world for "asshole".

    You think any of his emails ever survived a spam filter?

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  11. pun by Forget4it · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once they have taken one Pizza Co, the others are bound to fall sooner than later - the Domino theory ...

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  12. I've kept my love of sausage by eeyoredragon · · Score: 1

    successfully hidden my entire life. And now I'm about to be outed by Dominos??? Cruel, tempestuous fate! How you mock me!

  13. Extra anchovies by tippe · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many customers ask for extra anchovies on their pizza?

  14. Re:Good hack by Hotawa+Hawk-eye · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it sucks for the actual Nigerian finance minister.

    If I were Domino's, I would consider offering a reward (less than 30000 Euros but still significant) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of these hackers.

  15. Re:Good hack by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

    You've won a massive yacht!

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  16. Interesting.. by formfeed · · Score: 1

    I wonder if choice of toppings correlates to voting history.
    And if so, could it be circular? I.e. interesting people in more non-traditional toppings could influence their views on non-traditional topics...?

  17. Rex mundi? by formfeed · · Score: 1

    The king of the world? Jesus Christ?
    Just FYI: Ave Maria

  18. It's Cyberarmageddon! by Optali · · Score: 1

    OMG! It was true, all thys hype about the terrible consequences of Cyber warFare (the camel case is to make it more Cyber). How will civilization cope with this threat? This is inhuman! Publizicing the favourite toppings of completely uninteresting people nobody gives a fuck about... that's gruesome!!!

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