Are you aware that old REDBOX kiosks are a SECURUTY RISK?

[AviatorTom]

Redbox was a US company that rented DVD movies, via kiosks placed at common shopping areas. The company went bankrupt, a victim of cheaper and more convenient streaming services. This left 24 thousand Redbox kiosks in place. Some people have bought them and taken them home.

One person did that and found that it was pretty easy to break the encryption on data stored in the machine, which contained sensitive personal information including name and partial credit card numbers.

Here's the story...

Turns out Redbox's derelict kiosks are a big red security risk

If you've ever used Redbox, you might want to monitor your personal online and credit info.

[exitseven]

There was a big story on 60 minutes about Xerox copiers. They have ab internal hard drive that stores an image of every single copy that ever got made. They went to the Xerox place and looked at a few leased machines that were returned. One was from a hospital and another from a prison. Both had huge amounts of confidential information on them.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Gwendoline]

My old 3rd hand car had on the sat nav the old home address of the previous owners

[Gwendoline]

Names too

[robocop666]

if their long gone why worry?

[AviatorTom]

They're not long gone. Most of the kiosks are still in place. In fact, some stores have complained about them because they are hard-wired to the electrical outlet and still using electricity, at the store's cost.

[exitseven]

@AviatorTom You don/t need to be a rocket scientist to disconnect them.

[AviatorTom]

@exitseven I agree but many of them are in labor union states where the work must be done by a licensed electrician, a member of the IBEW, at $75 an hour, minimum 4 hours plus transportation costs, which the stores don't want to pay.

[exitseven]

I usually ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

[Bklynbadboy12]

Never use them