Pizza Lovers Suffer Data Breach From Hell 164
netbuzz writes "Some 230,000 New Zealanders have been informed that their personal information has apparently fallen into the hands of hackers who compromised the network of a locally famous food chain, Hell Pizza. The company says it suspects 'a rogue employee,' but one security expert says Hell's ordering portal is 'about 50 steps of fail.' Several New Zealand celebrities are among the victims and at least one is taking the matter in stride, musing: 'My Twitter has been hacked, my Facebook has been hacked and I'm pretty sure half of New Zealand has my phone number already. I have nothing bad to say about Hell.'"
The Good Old Pizza Times (Score:5, Funny)
The problem was that later on we obviously got hungry. This happened many times. Someone had to go get some food. Pizza was the obvious choice. But who would it be? I didn't want to. So we played a game of rock paper scissors. Damn, I lost. I tried to have an another round, but they didn't let me. There was nothing I could do.
I had to get up my ass and go get pizza. I asked my friends what they wanted. Adam said he wanted a delicious Pepperoni pizza. Jim said he wanted a Hawaiian pan pizza. I tried to remember their choices and took my bike. On the way over to the restaurant I tried to think what I want. Supreme pizza, double-cheese or maybe double bacon cheeseburger pizza?
I arrived at the pizza place. The taste was beautiful. I felt like I was home. I walked in and ordered three large pizzas, mine being the double bacon cheeseburger pizza. I felt so hungry. I just wanted to grab the pizza and eat. When the pizzas came, I had to eat there. I also took a few pieces of my friends pizzas because I wanted to taste them. Man I was happy.
Back then we didn't have credit cards, so I paid with the small amount of money that was in my pocket. No problems for the vendor, no problems for me, and everything worked greatly. The lesson being - pay with cash.
Security audits? (Score:2, Funny)
It's a concern... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Good Old Pizza Times (Score:5, Funny)
I thought the lesson was..
"Don't let your asshole friend go to get the pizza, cause all he'll bring you home is a couple of cold slices"
Re:SQL Injection (Score:5, Funny)
Pizza Woes: A Tale (Score:2, Funny)
It wasn't until I'd consumed it that I realized what was happening. Tom heartily recommended the new bread-disc, imploring I buy it with gusto:
"Pete this triple layer, cheese, anchovy, jalapeno, ape and pepperoni monster will be the takeaway of your life. They put cayenne in the tomato puree and man...just buy it. Gotta be tasted to be believed."
It's hardly common for that man to grant such an endorsement, and the next day I phoned up and got a jumbo 14" , the guy over the phone even said; 'We think you're gonna love it' - nobody ever said that to me in my illustrious history of calling up for food to my door! My heart did a little jump of the sort you get when for just a moment you swear you found a premium Ron Jeremy classic clip, or Heaven 17's 'Temptation' starting to play at a club as you instinctly haul your drunken, middle-aged self onto the dance floor for some old school self-embarassment for you and those around you - quality heartjumping you know?
I wasn't letting this occasion pass me by without making it memorable. I pulled out my deceased grandmother's candlelabra and stuck it onto the table together with purple wax scented candles I'd gotten from some hippy place in Camden years back. As I lit them and the lavender hit my nostrils it only accentuated the splendid truth that the pizza would soon arrive...
I texted Tom and a few other friends on my HTC Android, saying that some detailed pics of my consuming the bread mass and topping would follow. A simple smiley emoticon from Tom was the reply, but Tim from sports desk said...
"Pete I don't even wans to think abut your wrinkled visage and yellow-teeth digging into some pizza some guy told you was legendary. Get a grip or just put the pic on Facebook like any other conceited moron would. Or Digg...you'd probably get dugg 300 times minimum."
Bastard. Trying to rain on the parade - but there was the doorbell! I answered it, and a smiling young chap at the door said 'Hi that'll be £11.99 and here's a free bottle of Coke'.
I eagerly took the box and cola, handed over the exact change which was already prepared at the porch. The thought of the spicy clash of cayenne, jalapeno, salted ape and more was becoming less pleasent anticipation and more torture. I took my time putting the box by the table...relishing the prospect of chomping it down with abandon.
Then I opened the box......there was a 14 inch pizza but it was mere cheese and tomato! Cheese and tomato! That was it - bog-standard bullshit that I only bought in my student years due to financial stress!! An insult! Insult!
Like Tommy Wiseau in The Room I cried out a terrible and gargly cry and began a slow-paced trashing of my living room. The TV, a lovely Toshiba, went out of the window - my signed picture of Steven Jobs was smashed (later received a new frame), and I smeared the pizza over my sofa to devastating effect. The anger subsided...and although I managed to put together an omelette that night, these pizza woes will never leave me...I left a one-star review for the London Hell Pizza branch, and threatened legal action should my Android number ever find its way into some pranker's greasy mitts.
Re:The Good Old Pizza Times (Score:3, Funny)
I had to get up my ass and go get pizza. I asked my friends what they wanted. Adam said he wanted a delicious Pepperoni pizza. Jim said he wanted a Hawaiian pan pizza. I tried to remember their choices and took my bike. On the way over to the restaurant I tried to think what I want. Supreme pizza, double-cheese or maybe double bacon cheeseburger pizza?
So, PizzaAnalogyGuy, there seems to have been a little bit of a mix-up. This story wasn't supposed to get published till Christmas and your dream story ended up on /.
Between me and you, don't be expecting anything big under the tree in a few months. You can however, cherish this story, and the fact that you got first post on it.
*sips coffee*
Re:The Good Old Pizza Times (Score:5, Funny)
Back then we didn't have credit cards, so I paid with the small amount of money that was in my pocket.
Did you have to move aside the onion you wore on your belt as that was the fashion at the time?
"my twitter has been hacked" (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe using that credit card number as a Twitter password wasn't such a good idea after all.
Re:SQL Injection (Score:2, Funny)
Can't believe nobody's made the "it was all fine until Bobby Tables ordered" joke yet: http://xkcd.com/327/ [xkcd.com]
Yes SIR!!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hell Pizza = Pizza in CA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So Hell Pizza requires Facebook/Twitter UID? (Score:5, Funny)
the "celebrity" (quotes because we are talking about New Zealand)
Its obviously Russell Crowe
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Oh noes they know I like seafood pizza (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Celebrities in New Zealand? (Score:1, Funny)
support your local hooker. (look up rugby positions)
Re:It's a concern... (Score:4, Funny)
To be fair, he was including the sheep.
Re:It's a concern... (Score:5, Funny)
So you've just been there and Australia then?
Re:The Good Old Pizza Times (Score:3, Funny)
I had to get up my ass...
That's got to hurt!
Your story reminds me of a High School job I had making pizzas.
It was years before I could eat a pizza that I didn't make myself.
Re:What I don't understand... (Score:3, Funny)
I'll say! If I met a woman by the name of Crudely Indecent, I'd have to ask her the name of the movies she's starred in.
Re:What I don't understand... (Score:3, Funny)
This coming from "smooth wombat"... asl?