Well the hackers seem to think they're in it for the money, so it makes you wonder.J Tyran said:
Domino's France Will Not Pay Hacker Extortionists
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With most ransom type situations like kidnap or blackmail the victims are usually threatened into silence, maybe hacking ransoms are more common than we realise and just kept quiet. Blackmail might be involved in some situations, "pay up or we publish the proof your companies price fixing, we have the whole e-mail server dump with all your communications between your supposed rivals" or more personally "would you like it if your wife found out about your affair, we have all the chatlogs and GPS/phone images so maybe you will pay us $500 to make it go away". Stuff like that, petty blackmail and ransom happens all the time and I would bet hacking and stealing of data from computers and networked devices would be one of the tools used. Maybe there is even the more revolting, "we have a copy of the folder where you keep your pictures of children" after they digitally follow the sickos on the subnet, traditionally all types of criminal will quickly adopt all kinds of new technology and sometimes even create new sub categories of crime.MeChaNiZ3D said:
Lol you corrected grammar and insulted someone randomly just as an aside. Go you! All the traits of a likable human being!WhiteTigerShiro said:
Although I am sorry because that kind of bitterness must mean you're personally connected to this story some how right? Did you have your information stolen? Did you really like their pizza? Did you steal the data and just suck at selling it?
Nah, more the whole "Going into a news article about X Restaurant specifically to talk about how much I hate X's food" thing is one of my pet peeves. Doesn't matter if it's Taco Bell, McDonald's, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, or even a pizza place. If it's a nationally known chain, someone always feels obligated to talk about how much they hate their food.Kameburger said:
And the grammar thing is because it's his job. ;P
Good for Dominos. I mean, yes, it sucks that customers will have information compromised, and yes you can complain all you'd like about needing better security in the first place, but the last thing anyone should do is validate such criminal actions as a profitable business strategy.
As long as Dominos hasn't tried to hide the breach and takes steps to prevent it happening again, sounds good enough to me. Although given that credit card information isn't involved, I can't imagine it being much more valuable than a phonebook.
As long as Dominos hasn't tried to hide the breach and takes steps to prevent it happening again, sounds good enough to me. Although given that credit card information isn't involved, I can't imagine it being much more valuable than a phonebook.
