Redbox customers' credit card numbers, private info stored in easily hacked kiosks
Things are going from bad to worse for Redbox, which is going out of business.
Redbox customers have been warned.
Old Redbox kiosks have been hacked to reveal customers’ credit card numbers and more of their private information, including their names, addresses and emails.
California-based programmer Foone Turing claimed in a social media thread last week that she was able to hack an old Redbox machine in Morganton, North Carolina.
She said she was able to uncover the customers’ name, ZIP code and usage history. They had rented the films “The Giver” and “The Maze Runner” nine years prior to the hack.
According to Foone Turing, the hard drives on the Redbox machine had the first 6 digits and last 4 digits of the credit card used, as well as other “lower-level transaction details.”
Foone Turing told Ars Technica that it wasn’t a difficult task to find customer data on the machine belonging to the beloved movie rental kiosk.
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