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Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by themoonisachees »

Supermancho wrote: post #146
bunnie wrote: post #115

Looking at the court documents, it seems shady organizations registered a bunch of domain names that are used in the trade of brand-name athletic gear. The victim's identity was used to register one of those domain names, but just looking at the other registrations it's pretty clear the organizations are based out of China. In this context, the case brought by the brand owners is a little more reasonable -- if they d…

globalsupport@icann.org and contacting the registrar to start. File a police report (this will help if anyone comes to visit your address) regarding identity theft. Contact the IRS regarding identity theft and possible foreign dba. Contact the post office if you dont have a locked mailbox..also, if you get any domain related mail, it can elevate the federal response. Talk to your bank about invalidating all checks an…

So in other words, the state that results from wrongfully typing someone's name in a textbox that is never verified when buying the domain is a multi-year endeavour for that person? Surely there has to be a better way.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by themoonisachees »

bagels wrote: post #11

How was the ex parte trial even allowed here? Did she not respond to the summons? Is this just something they do if the person is outside US jurisdiction?

The court docs say that the brands made the case that because the illegal business had been happening over the internet, reaching out to her via email was a satisfactory way of serving her. What a farce.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by pjc50 »

boondoggle16 wrote: post #32

So what do you do in a situation like this? I mean really? Total punisher mode, make other judges think twice and sacrifice yourself?

Realistically, she'll cross America off the list of "countries to ever visit" and then worry about it the rest of her life.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

anigbrowl wrote: post #75
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drivers of nicer vehicles actually drive better around cyclists as they are incentivized to not acquire dents and scratches in their precious. It's the hoopty drivers who DGAF about damage and are likely most ignorant of their legal obligations who are the biggest threat.

Perhaps it depends where you live. Most of the people who ignore my existence and that of pedestrian crossings seem to be driving SUVs or huge pristine clean pickups.

I never said they were good or considerate drivers. They're just less bad for mostly selfish reasons. Ignorance of the law is still universal for US drivers.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by oofoe »

Tao3300 wrote: post #116
oofoe wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, acktually... I just tried to set up an eBay account to buy an exhaust part. I created the account, sent the seller a message and twenty minutes later, I got a notification from eBay that I (and anyone from my household) was permanently banned because I was a "threat to the eBay community". I haven't been on eBay for ages, and as far as I know, was certainly never threatening to anyone on or off eBay. Nobody at…

> an exhaust part Was it a catalytic converter?

Actually, I /wanted/ a replacement flex pipe, but the only way to get it is to buy a rear catalytic converter assembly. The one I was looking at was supposed to be new -- not "RFE" (i.e. stolen)...

Is eBay salty about catalytic converters?

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by oofoe »

kahnclusions wrote: post #149
oofoe wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, acktually... I just tried to set up an eBay account to buy an exhaust part. I created the account, sent the seller a message and twenty minutes later, I got a notification from eBay that I (and anyone from my household) was permanently banned because I was a "threat to the eBay community". I haven't been on eBay for ages, and as far as I know, was certainly never threatening to anyone on or off eBay. Nobody at…

I just had the same thing happen last week. I’m moving away and selling some of our stuff that we can’t take with us. I have a spare 5G/LTE router that I thought I’d throw up on eBay as well as Facebook Marketplace. I followed their onboarding process to the letter to create a listing, verify my email and mobile phone, add a bank account, etc. About an hour later I got an email saying I’ve been “permanently suspended…

Did they also ban every member of your family as well? That _really_ wierded me out. I'm not sure a public utility (what eBay, Amazon, et al basically are now thanks to the death of brick and mortar) should be allowed such a totalitarian response.

Somehow this hasn't stopped the people selling empty PS5 boxes and knockoff handbags at all.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by Tao3300 »

oofoe wrote: post #156
Tao3300 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> an exhaust part Was it a catalytic converter?

Actually, I /wanted/ a replacement flex pipe, but the only way to get it is to buy a rear catalytic converter assembly. The one I was looking at was supposed to be new -- not "RFE" (i.e. stolen)... Is eBay salty about catalytic converters?

It wouldn't surprise me. It's very dumb, but not surprising.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by Supermancho »

themoonisachees wrote: post #151
Supermancho wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

globalsupport@icann.org and contacting the registrar to start. File a police report (this will help if anyone comes to visit your address) regarding identity theft. Contact the IRS regarding identity theft and possible foreign dba. Contact the post office if you dont have a locked mailbox..also, if you get any domain related mail, it can elevate the federal response. Talk to your bank about invalidating all checks an…

So in other words, the state that results from wrongfully typing someone's name in a textbox that is never verified when buying the domain is a multi-year endeavour for that person? Surely there has to be a better way.

Since the name is not that identifying, I was considering name and address.

> had your name and details

I was assuming the worst.

Re: Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts

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Post by jjoonathan »

Nanana909 wrote: post #137
jjoonathan wrote: post #64

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ALPRs are everywhere these days. "Very common" is probably understatement in this situation.

Then some statistics shouldn’t be hard to find. I can’t find anything stating this is “very common”. I guess as a rough metric for “very common” let’s say on a similar level to heart attacks. Quite rare still but common enough that you could be justified in calling it very common. So 850,000 cases per year.

First page of google: 93 percent of police departments in cities with populations of 1 million or more use their own ALPR systems
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