Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender 263
snydeq writes "Hacker group Rex Mundi has made good on its promise to publish thousands of loan-applicant records it swiped from AmeriCash Advance after the payday lender refused to fork over between $15,000 and $20,000 as an extortion fee — or, in Rex Mundi's terms, an 'idiot tax.' The group announced on June 15 that it was able to steal AmeriCash's customer data because the company had left a confidential page unsecured on one of its servers. 'This page allows its affiliates to see how many loan applicants they recruited and how much money they made,' according to the group's post on dpaste.com. 'Not only was this page unsecured, it was actually referenced in their robots.txt file.'"
Can I get a car analogy instead, please? (Score:4, Funny)
Fucking door analogies, how do they work?
It's not okay to steal? No shit, Sherlock.
Re:Strange sense of morals (Score:5, Funny)
Not quite the same as you've got an expectation of privacy if you're in your house. This situation is more like a beautiful woman undressing on a theatre stage and not realising that people were watching.
This situation is most like someone accidentally leaving their Ferrari unlocked with the keys in, and some fourteen year old joyrider borrowing it for a few hours, then attempting to blackmail the owner because he found some pictures of his mistress in the glovebox.
If you're going to do a stupid analogy, at least make it a car one.
Re:Strange sense of morals (Score:5, Funny)
...the right response is to inform the website owners.
Well, they did.