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Post by heavyset_go »

lightgreen wrote: post #224
heavyset_go wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The claim that "wrong burger incident" won't be investigated by McDonald's is incorrect. McDonald's takes problems like that very seriously.

When you got poisoned and had to go to the hospital, then yes. If it was ketchup instead of curry, or if they put 8 nuggets instead of 9, I very much doubt so.

> If it was ketchup instead of curry, or if they put 8 nuggets instead of 9, I very much doubt so.

According to the people I know who worked at McDonald's, wrong orders that are reported to corporate are taken very seriously. Corporate gives the person who reports the errors coupons for free meals.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by 1_player »

newdude116 wrote: post #240
Kapura wrote: post #16

I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here, just "codes of conduct" that companies and users both willfully ignore. If your handle gets sold by some facebook employee to a rich kid in LA, what recourse do you have? I don't know what laws this would break (maybe some broad definition of fraud? I Am Not A Lawyer) so it's not like this person has a slam dun…

Lost your Instagram account? Dude, that is nothing. I lost my company in Shit-hole country Estonia and 20k with it. "I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here" I think the concept of law does not go very far in Estonia.

You're gonna have to elaborate on that.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by adventured »

throwigemp1 wrote: post #182

I work at Instagram and there's literally zero chance of this happening. I work on the backend, so I know the kind of tools or logging we do. If in the chance this happens remotely, like 1 in a million chance, the employee will be fired like instantly. I can't believe a random tweet with a screenshot is on front page of HN with 500+ upvotes.

> I can't believe a random tweet with a screenshot is on front page of HN with 500+ upvotes.

How does that outcome compare to the believability of your average HN throwaway account?

Green username person says it's like a one in a million chance. Fired instantly? Oh the nos, will The Zuck rain down torment and lightning from the sky like Zeus?

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by bhay »

This has happened to me previously on FB. Had an account, of my first and middle names, that I'd stayed up to get when they released that feature on FB. Both short names like LeoMark. Woke up one morning and they'd changed it to LeoMarkus, and given the old account to someone. Pretty sure something similar also happened on LinkedIn.

Was pissed off at the time but pretty happy with no Facebook account these days.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by verroq »

mumblerino wrote: post #206
verroq wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is a “free” user, what duty does Facebook owe him?

Ah yes sure you don’t pay Google a dime, so don’t you worry if you lose your account tomorrow, it’s not like anything is owed to you. Say bye to verroq@gmail.com

Not sure what your point is because that’s happened to people and they have no recourse.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by ericabiz »

I’m pretty sure PlugWalkJoe is behind this. Someone here mentioned the “dead” account on IG and I remembered, for some reason, Krebs talking about that in his article about the Twitter crypto attack. Either this was a SIM swap or someone in that group has gotten access to IG internal tools just like they did Twitter. I’ve Tweeted @dannyjhall about this.

PlugWalkJoe owns “dead” on IG: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...

Danny’s new account follows “dead” and two other “OG” accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24608990

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by newdude116 »

1_player wrote: post #242
newdude116 wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lost your Instagram account? Dude, that is nothing. I lost my company in Shit-hole country Estonia and 20k with it. "I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here" I think the concept of law does not go very far in Estonia.

You're gonna have to elaborate on that.

I am an e-resident and I "bought" a company in Estonia from another company in Estonia, owned by a Russian scamster. Both companies do exist and are in "good standing".

Estonian authorities don't care about criminal activities, wire fraud or money laundering. In fact, I wasn't even able to get a case number or in most cases even an answer. So this guy is selling the same company over and over again. Not a bad business for him.

In the end, if you think about it, this may be the whole idea of the eResidency. It has become very difficult for companies held by eResidents to open any bank account in Estonia since banks are smarter and are afraid to be cut off from international money transfers. Most of these companies therefore hold bank accounts in other EU countries. Mostly new online banks.

Regarding the Estonian law enforcement, why should they care? It is hard to explain something to a man if his salary depends on not understanding it. And in the end all these companies bring in revenue.

All leads will point you to cybercrime [AT ] politsei.ee From dozens of emails I never received any reply. It seems not to be monitored. Funny.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by teddyh »

orangefarm wrote: post #10

The arbitrariness with which these companies rule over our digital lives infuriates me more from month to month. We do our best to fight dictators in the physical world but somehow accept them in the digital realm.

“It’s murder out there. You can’t even travel around your own microcircuits without permission from Master Control Program.”

— Crom, Tron, 1982

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by tigershark »

ipsum2 wrote: post #7

There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )

I think he would have noticed if his phone network was dead by now.

Re: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

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Post by dmurray »

otterley wrote: post #117
Nextgrid wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the "theft" of the username would break any kind of law, as this was a company decision (since it done by an employee) and the username was never your property anyway. I'm assuming that employee definitely violated some internal policies, but nothing from a legal point of view. The only recourse I can see from a legal point of view is that they seem to have handed over the entire account (as the followe…

There is absolutely a legal theory, and that is fraud. If you claim to be someone you are not, and someone relies on your false claim to their detriment, you are liable.

It's likely that Facebook was defrauded here, or that an employee of Facebook breached his employment contract. In either case Facebook would have standing to go after the fraudster/employee, but the account "owner" might not.
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