HungerRush Data Breach: Because Your Pizza Order Wasn’t Stressed Enough
Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought it was safe to order a goddamn pepperoni pizza without some script kiddie threatening to leak your credit card details to the dark web, HungerRush goes and shits the bed spectacularly.
These muppets managed to let some hacker waltz in and steal customer data—including names, emails, phone numbers, and partial credit card information—from their shitty restaurant management platform. And because apparently the bastard couldn’t get enough Bitcoin from extorting the company directly, they decided to mass-mail the actual fucking customers. Yes, that’s right. Your Tuesday night kebab just turned into a fucking extortion attempt.
The emails are threatening to release “full credit card numbers and SSNs” unless the victims pony up. HungerRush is bleating that oh, don’t worry, it’s only the last four digits of your card. As if that’s supposed to make anyone feel better when some Romanian teenager is threatening to ruin their credit rating over a $12 sandwich order. Because nothing says “we value your privacy” like having your payment data scattered across the internet like confetti at a wedding.
This is what happens when you let marketing wankers design security architecture. “Ooh, let’s store everything in plaintext because encryption is hard!” Fucking brilliant. Now every Tom, Dick, and Harry who wanted a side of fries is getting blackmail spam because these idiots couldn’t secure a fucking lemonade stand, let alone a payment processing system. You’d get better security from a toaster.
Reminds me of the time my former boss decided to store all employee passwords in an Excel sheet called “passwords.xlsx” on the shared drive because “it’s easier for IT to help people when they forget them.” I didn’t warn him when I found it being harvested by a worm. I just sat back, drank my coffee, and watched him explain to the board why the CFO’s account was sending love letters to the competition. Some people have to learn the hard way that security isn’t a fucking suggestion.
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