Hackers publish payday loan emails after failing to levy 'idiot tax'

JMH · Jun 22, 2012

Hacker group Rex Mundi has published thousands of loan-applicant details it siphoned off from US payday loan outfit AmeriCash Advance.

The move follows AmeriCash Advance's refusal to sump up $15,000 in what Rex Mundi describes as an idiot tax for maintaining insecure systems and what AmeriCash Advance characterises as an extortionate demand. Rex Mundi said it extracted AmeriCash Advance's customer database on 15 June, via an insecure page designed for affiliates of the finance firm.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/22/payday_loan_data_breach/

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Hackers publish payday loan emails after failing to levy 'idiot tax'

JMH

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