Circuit City Used Consoles Had Porn, CC #'s

[Parrdacc]

Always wondered what the X's in XBOX where for

 

[Hitokage]

Most of these consoles were probably returned en masse the moment Circuit City announced they were closing.

These might or might not have been defective and my CC checked all of them to make sure, however, we didn't specifically check for any data of any kind on them. If your CC number or your porn got into someone else's hands, you were the idiot that decided, "hay, I'm gonna get my money back! ;D" and didn't bother to understand that you had personal information on the system.

It's not a company's responsibility to cover for the screw-up of someone who couldn't be bothered to press delete on some home movies.

 

[redzoneos]

haha you guys are funny... just for kicks though everyone that received porn on their used game console that they purchased should post videos/pictures on the youtube "videos of shame" so everyone can point and laugh at the morons who were stupid enough to not be proactive in "protecting" themselves... pun intended.

 

[curryj02]

I'm willing to bet that a large proportion of the consoles with something as personal as homemade porn were stolen and then sold to the store. I mean, how stupid would u have to be to totally forget that u had left your S&M video on your Xbox before selling it? Something like leaving your login installed (and hence allowing whoever buys it to use your login and CC details) is a little more understandable... but still dumb.

 

[Onus]

I'm glad a few people actually realized that these were non-functioning systems. The owners probably COULDN'T erase them, and was not technically savvy enough to know the data could be recovered.

 

[Guest]

Circuit City did not take trade-ins, the units that were sold were all customer returns. They were brought back to the store as defective units by customers and were sent back to our distribution centers to receive credit from the vendors. All of the units the vendors did not take back were sold as a lot from the distribution center to a third party. The third party that bought the units knew of the conditions, and they bought them at a low price. For example: the cost of the arcade version of the xbox 360 would cost a consumer $199.99, this item was sold to the third party for only $34 dollars for each unit, the 80GB PS3 would cost a consumer $399.99, the third party paid only $68 for the unit. To get the units at these low prices they had to buy them by the pallet, they were not allowed to just buy the units that worked. Normally over 50% of customer returns still work or may need minor repairs. They also could sell the cables, power cords, controllers, hardrives, games or other accessories and still make a profit on the items. The porn and credit card info will just be a little bonus for the consumers.

 

[JamesT5192]

Used HDs with info personal info or homemade videos shoul be disposed of with thermite

 

[tayb]

[citation][nom]warezme[/nom]Hmmm, how is this Circuit City's fault? It would be the previous owners responsibility to take off their data from their own machine. I have only had to send in my laptop in once for repairs and I made sure there was no personal information on it before it left my hands.[/citation]

The blame goes on both. Circuit City has a responsibility to reformat the hard drives of any machines before re-selling and they didn't do it. On the other hand the customers need to have some semblance of common sense and delete sensitive information beforehand.

I also find it very sad that people would so quickly steal from another person given the opportunity.

 

[idisarmu]

it would be very amusing to find porn on your console... I wouldn't say it would be awesome, because ugly people like to buy xbox360s and ps3s too....

 

[anamaniac]

I wouldn't mind it if the pornography was decent, but otherwise I still wouldn't mind just because it'd be a good laugh.

As for the credit cards, I doubt I'd use the info, but when LIVE costs that much, who knows? I bought the system and all the info on it, so just consider it a rebate program. ;D

I just wiped my xbox HDD immediately after I bought a used one. Maybe I shoulda tried live.