Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by throwaway13337 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:47PM (#10467670)

From what I gather from the other comments, it looks like most likely Homejoy's liquidator (Nortonsgroup) has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow.

Homeaglow copied and rebranded their own tech as Fly Maids to service this user list.

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by nacs on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:36PM (#10467905)

> has sold Homejoy's user data to Homeaglow

Sold it with credit card numbers attached though?

That sounds awfully.. illegal even for a liquidation.

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by dguaraglia on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @07:33PM (#10468171)

They probably just exported a database of credit card tokens into a PCI-compliant system (Stripe, Braintree or the like.) The motives and method are equally shitty, but at least get some solace in assuming that your credit card number is just not out in the open.

Now... how secure this transfer of tokens was, no idea. So there could be a DB dump somewhere with a token to my credit card, and anyone can use it to start charging from it. I'll keep an eye on my bills.

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by yeukhon on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:51PM (#10467970)

See http://www.pcworld.com/article/2901028/radioshack-puts-custo...

Interestingly it has been legal in one case.

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by nacs on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:56PM (#10468006)

Not really, FTC didn't like it:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/19/news/companies/radioshack-cu...

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @10:49PM (#10468928)

From other comments it looks like Homeaglow IS Homejoy.

No sale here.

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Re:Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down? by sajclarke2 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:16PM (#10467820)

This sounds horrible but is probably likely

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