This is completely appalling and a blatant ripoff of Handy. I hope they don't get away with this.
It's the rip-off that put me over the top. I was so pissed I had to write the article.
Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a bit brazen to make those claims on the site. They can get into trouble for that and also ruin their own reputation. So I am thinking the site is a little joke? When you click on help and go to FAQs, it labels questions as "HOT". I think it is a joke.
They didn't claim they were featured. They simply displayed the logos. Lots of affiliate marketing sites do the same thing. I'm not defending the practice of course.
It's entirely possible that including the logos is a trademark violation.
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#24Looks like the domain was registered on Oct 8th and I can't find "Fly Maids" or similar names on the Delaware Division of Corporations. (Maybe it takes longer for it to show up?)
Either way super weird and creepy.
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#25Looking 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.
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...
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#26Biggest thing is that CC info still being on there. That is grossly irresponsible.
Not that I approve ripping people off, but hard to sympathize with Handy when Handy treats (treated?) its employees and workers poorly.
As for the whole transferring over of assets without any secure certs, that's pretty shady and/or lazy not doing that.
Cue someone from said company posting, "oh sorry we're not ready for public and that accidentally got sent" without mentioning why they even have the author's data or why the author's credit card data was apparently sold off.
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#27My old Homejoy login doesn't work on that site, and doing "forgot your password" gives an error of "user does not exist" for the email I used with Homejoy.
They're probably not porting over accounts by default, but rather waiting for users to express interest by clicking the link in the marketing email. From the original post: > Worst still, as I navigated around the site I realized the email link I clicked logged me into “My Account”. This screen had lots of my personal information, home address, email, even my credit card number.
So hold on... If we can work out how they encoded those activation URLs, or someone intercepts the email then they can get full access to anyone's account?
I have zero sympathy for HomeJoy. They failed, which is something I can gave sympathy for. But they sold all their customer's private data without notifying them of this fact, and caused major security concerns in the process!
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#28What's the big deal? Homejoy is just hacking startup downfunding... (/s)
I'd like to see some kind of stronger YC influence on ethics in the companies they fund. I realize that YC doesn't have any direct control over the companies, but it could be as simple as including good ethics in the traits they look for in startup founders.
A while back I started compiling a list of YC companies that spammed or otherwise behaved badly. It quickly got back-burnered by other projects, but there was AirBnB from W09, InstallMonetizer and SocialCam from W12, Zenefits from W13, Abacus and GetAirHelp from W14, Gradberry and OmniRef from W15 ... while so far it looks like the majority of YC startups are well-behaved, the trend was looking like there's a few in every batch that are willing to do shady things to meet their growth metrics.
Or, in Homejoy's case, maybe make a little more money while winding down.
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#29This is completely appalling and a blatant ripoff of Handy. I hope they don't get away with this.
It's the rip-off that put me over the top. I was so pissed I had to write the article.
I'm pretty sure them having the details Homejoy promised wouldn't be accessible is a much bigger deal, at least for me it is. If they have it, who else does?
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#30You might want to obfuscate the last 4 digits of your credit card in that screenshot given how useful it is for hacking other systems.
Card's already canceled. Thanks though.
I don't think that rathboma was suggesting that you might get fraudulent changes on the card - but any other service that you use which currently has that card on record could now potentially be compromised by anyone who knows your name and has those 4 digits - many customer support systems only need that much to verify your identity and make changes to your account.