Hardware
Redbox kiosks hacked, exposing customer data
October 21, 2024
Customers of the now-defunct Redbox movie rental kiosks may be at risk of identity theft after a programmer revealed a security flaw, according to a New York Post report.
California-based programmer Foone Turing claims to have hacked an old Redbox machine in North Carolina, accessing customer information including names, addresses, emails and partial credit card numbers.
"The device has a lot of logs, and customer data was scattered throughout several of them," Turing told Ars Technica, quoted by the New York Post. "Anyone with basic hacking skills could easily pull data manually out of the files."
Redbox's parent company, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy in July and began liquidating its assets. This included shutting down all 24,000 Redbox kiosks.
The full extent of the hack and the number of customers potentially affected remains unknown.
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