Dairy Queen was hacked, and had credit card info stolen by the same program that gave Target such a jolly run earlier this year. Elsewhere, the city of Minneapolis is reconsidering its contract with a bus bench company. How are these related? Let's investigate.
First: Who hacks DQ? It's as if they've hacked everything else and are just having dessert now.
Perhaps they were misinformed by the name, and thought that they were hacking into Dairy Queen.
This comes on the heels of the Target breach, the Home Depot breach, the crafts-store Michaels breach, and so on. At least no one has gotten into the StarTribune computers, because they could reprogram the software we use to put together the paper, and fgjie o3n4w; 3 dslrnewdi3r ire045 fd5555555
Hold on, they're patching the firewall … there. OK. As I was saying, everyone's getting hacked, and it makes you think twice about handing over your credit card. And then you hand over your credit card anyway.
But it's a reminder: Cash is easier; paper is easier, period. The other day at Cub I saw a good deal that required a coupon, which I didn't have. Well, let's just call up the coupon circular on our handy Cub app on my phone.
The app asked for a password, which I couldn't remember.
Some guy in Russia probably knows it. The NSA probably knows it. I couldn't remember it.