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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, if I was going to reuse a password, it would be for a Chick-fil-A loyalty account.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago

Max 12 characters.

I actually don't know.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a direct financial incentive to do this? You can't sell someone's complementary chicken sandwich for bitcoin.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would say data harvesting since you generally have payment information hooked up to it. But like even then you would think it would be much cheaper just buying it online.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

The article says it got the last four of credit card, which is something, I guess, but superfluous to anyone in a situation to get the rest of it.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

My life savings. :/

[–] DrPop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh no, not my bigot chicken account.

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago