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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by marrone12 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:11PM (#10467032)
Looking like they sold their customer data over to fly maids or whoever was behind them. Surprised they were able to actually transfer the CC info. When I was at a company that was selling off assets, the most we could do was give them customer email addresses. I have serious doubts about the legality of this.
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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by mikegirouard on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:47PM (#10467288)
This appears to be very plausible.

Googling "Fly Maids, Inc" shows their terms and privacy pages w/last modified dates of 2013 and 2014 respectively.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fly+Maids,+Inc%22

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by JoblessWonder on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:32PM (#10467583)
Except it looks like the domain was dropped on 1/17/2014 and then re-registered earlier this month.

The domain's WHOIS info lists:

Creation Date: 2015-10-08T04:34:58Z

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by joshstrange on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:28PM (#10467149)
The site was just registered earlier this month (Created Date: 2015-10-08) [0]. I wonder if this is just rebranding or if they sold the data...

[0] http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=flymaids.com

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by johnsalzarulo on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:21PM (#10467112)
That's what I thought too!
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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by ukyrgf on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:26PM (#10467550)
It's only the last four digits of the card number.
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