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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 6 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.894s | source | bottom
1. marrone12 ◴[28 Oct 15 20:11 UTC] No.10467032[source]▶
Looking like they sold their customer data over to fly maids or whoever was behind them. Surprised they were able to actually transfer the CC info. When I was at a company that was selling off assets, the most we could do was give them customer email addresses. I have serious doubts about the legality of this.
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2. johnsalzarulo ◴[28 Oct 15 20:21 UTC] No.10467112[source]▶
That's what I thought too!
3. joshstrange ◴[28 Oct 15 20:28 UTC] No.10467149[source]▶
The site was just registered earlier this month (Created Date: 2015-10-08) [0]. I wonder if this is just rebranding or if they sold the data...

[0] http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=flymaids.com

4. mikegirouard ◴[28 Oct 15 20:47 UTC] No.10467288[source]▶
This appears to be very plausible.

Googling "Fly Maids, Inc" shows their terms and privacy pages w/last modified dates of 2013 and 2014 respectively.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Fly+Maids,+Inc%22

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5. ukyrgf ◴[28 Oct 15 21:26 UTC] No.10467550[source]▶
It's only the last four digits of the card number.
6. JoblessWonder ◴[28 Oct 15 21:32 UTC] No.10467583[source]▶
Except it looks like the domain was dropped on 1/17/2014 and then re-registered earlier this month.

The domain's WHOIS info lists:

Creation Date: 2015-10-08T04:34:58Z