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Re:Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides by warent on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @10:22PM (#18029289)
How disappointing that they wouldn't even give a simple "Thank you" for you going out of your way to actually inform them. Don't they realize you could've just harvested the user contact info for a quick buck and sold a cracked version of the app for weeks/months before they realized it?

Okay, good job code monkey. Now move along, we have to get back to focusing on our shitty business.

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Re:Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides by d4l3k on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @10:29PM (#18029312)
Oh, the guy from support was fairly polite. I cut down his responses a bit for the sake of brevity but I'll clear that up.

For example the initial exchange was:

> Hey Tristan, thanks for reaching out to us about this. We really appreciate you telling us about this. We don't have a bug bounty scheme, but I've forwarded your feedback to our software team. Thanks again, Tristan.

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Re:Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides by questionasked on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:08PM (#18029469)
Out of interest, how does one go about selling user contact info like that?
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