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Dell.com just got hacked

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RESmonkey said:
Ouch. The asshats who order knowing it's hacked are stupid; who knows where their CC info goes after the site has been compromised?
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So much for my 5 hd's ordered last night. That was before anyone thought it was hacked and just assumed price errors.

Amex has my back tho.
 
SirStev0 said:
They announced yesterday they are laying off 700 workers. Maybe that explains the havoc.
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this
it isn't "hacked"
all the news stories are blaming the layoffs, some of the people that got pink slipped are unhappy about it, it seems

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dell...laysia-Cause-Unusual-Side-Effect-130037.shtml
unlike HP and Fujitsu, which have recently been plagued by strikes and walkouts, the emotional response from Dell's employees seems to have taken a different form. Specifically, not long after the announcement was actually made, Dell's website started posting seriously inaccurate product prices, with devices normally priced at hundreds (or thousands) of dollars listed for under $40.


According to the report, Dell plans to let go of 700 employees by June 2010. Of course, this type of decision will never sit well with the people whose jobs are in jeopardy. This supposedly came as a result of Dell's decision to stop using the plant in Penang for the production of notebooks aimed at Latin America, Canada and US markets. Currently, the plant is set to only continue supplying the markets in South Asia and Australia, hence the need to reduce workforce.

Still, even though the employees have not yet had a lot of time to organize a real response to this move on the company's part, it seems that Slickleads may have spotted one. The actual reply on the employees' part seems to have taken the form of numerous price listing errors for multiple high-end (and obviously expensive) products on the maker’s website.

Among the more outrageous ones were the listing of the 3GHz Xeon E3110 for $16.99 (normally for $219.99) and the Xeon E5450 (3GHz) for $39.99 instead of $1,039.99. Even the Xeon 5060 was listed at only $10.99 instead of $699. Of course, there is no proof that the price mistakes were really employee responses to Dell's workforce reduction plans.
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TwiceOver said:
Wow. What ungrateful asshats. So those employees went from "possibly getting laid off" to "fucking fired and lucky if we don't prosecute".
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the workers are in Malaysia , not sure what the laws are there, maybe they don't have much to worry about in that country
 
QueBert said:
Will be hilarious for the people who order a Xeon for that price knowing the sites been hacked. Then go on to throw a total bitch when Dell doesn't honor the price "but they have to give it to me for 50 bucks FUCK DELL I'm going to sue them if they don't!"

The internet is full of asshats like that.
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Meh, a few years ago Amazon has some RAM that was supposed to be $99.99 listed at $9.99 and everyone on ATOT jumped on it. They sent out an apology email saying it was a mistake and no one got thier cheap ram.
 
Of course, when Dell mispriced a laptop in that debacle over in Hong Kong, they were compelled by the courts to honor some 3000 or so orders that came in...
 
Train said:
Meh, a few years ago Amazon has some RAM that was supposed to be $99.99 listed at $9.99 and everyone on ATOT jumped on it. They sent out an apology email saying it was a mistake and no one got thier cheap ram.
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I'd imagine a lot of time and money is lost dealing with these pricing errors as well. I can't even imagine the influx of orders they get when this happens, it's probably pretty insane.

But yeah, they have no obligation to honor these pricing errors, nor should they. I'll still get in on a blatant pricing error occasionally, though, on the slim hope that my order will somehow slip through the cracks. 😀
 
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ChaoZ said:
Should I be worried about my CC that's in their database?
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Probably not, since that stuff info has been stored with encryption prior to this. It's the newly sent info that may be made to be sent unencrypted (if it was a hack, and if the goal was to get your info).
 
Train said:
Meh, a few years ago Amazon has some RAM that was supposed to be $99.99 listed at $9.99 and everyone on ATOT jumped on it. They sent out an apology email saying it was a mistake and no one got thier cheap ram.
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Meh, two weeks ago Amazon was selling refurbed Garmin 765T GPS' for 10$. People got them when they complained to Amazon.
 
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