( afagen ) In the last few years, tax return fraud has become a serious problem at the state and federal levels, thanks to the growth of ...
Sally Beauty: Investigation Confirms Customer Payment Info May Have Been Put At Risk, But Not Debit PINs
( JeepersMedia ) Three weeks after Sally Beauty first said it was looking into whether it’d been the victim of a hack attack , the compan...
This McDonald’s Asks Drive-Thru Customers To Bend The Laws Of Physics
McDonald’s is trying all kinds of new things to attract younger customers and sling fries at them, but we’re not so sure about their plan to...
Man Named God Reaches Settlement With Equifax, Finally Gets A Credit Score
( [RAWRZ!] ) You might recall a story from about a year back where a man with the first name “God” had a little dispute with credit-repor...
If You Have $100M To Spare, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Could Be Yours
( basykes ) If you don’t know who Bubbles the Chimpanzee was, you should probably just stop reading now. For the rest of you who may have...
American Credit Cards Are Most Popular In The World For Hacks, Fraud (Because Our Tech Stinks)
( frankieleon ) If it feels like we hear a whole lot of stories about retail data breaches here in the U.S., well, that’s because we do....
ThinkGeek Parent Geeknet Giving Hot Topic Three Days To Match Rival Suitor’s Offer
The love triangle between the parent company of online retailer ThinkGeek and its two suitors continues to heat up, with Geeknet now telling...
Dunkin’ Donuts Debuts Chips Ahoy-Flavored Doughnuts
If you feel your energy flagging at work today, don’t worry: as of Monday, Dunkin’ Donuts has a new doughnut for afternoon eating. Starting ...
AT&T Still Trying To Wriggle Out Of Federal Throttling Lawsuit
( Mike Mozart ) Seven months after the Federal Trade Commission sued AT&T’s wireless division for allegedly misleading customers abou...
N.Y. Gov. Cuomo On Fighting Abuse At Nail Salons: “Nobody Can Do It Faster Than The Consumer Can Do It”
In the aftermath of a recent two-part investigative report on the conditions in the nail salon industry , Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office wor...
School Year Ends, Students Wonder Where Their Senior Photos Are
( Studio d’Xavier ) “I feel like I’m gonna be a senior citizen rather than a high school senior by the time I get them,” one student wrot...
Verizon Knows More About What You Watch On FiOS Than You Do
( Bart ) Verizon isn’t a cable company. Its FiOS product doesn’t spring from decades of guaranteed local monopolies , which means most F...
Dear Sonic: Please Don’t Store Any More Hamburger & Hot Dog Buns Next To The Toilet
(Photo: Josh Benteman/Facebook ) Imagine you’re at a fast food joint and you’re taking your young child to the bathroom. Of all the possi...
Self-Driving Cars: Fewer Accidents, But More Motion Sickness
( Neal Fowler ) Cars increasingly drive themselves. If tech companies have their way, then entirely autonomous vehicles will be the futu...
Costco Misses Out On $40M/Year Because Of $5 Rotisserie Chickens, And It’s Okay With That
( Mike Mozart ) When you buy a jug of mayonnaise or a mammoth pack of toilet paper rolls at Costco, you understand that you’re saving by ...
Uber Proposes Simpler Privacy Policy, Will Let Riders See Their Ratings
( Adam Fagen ) One feature of ride-hailing app Uber that’s meant to keep riders from acting like complete jerks is mutual rating: passeng...
Swiss Cheese Has Been Losing Its Holes, And Now Science Knows Why
( Ruby Nguyen ) The 21st century has not been kind to the trademark texture of Emmental cheese. To Americans, that’s Swiss cheese: the s...
Amazon Brand Coffee And Cereal May Soon Be Coming To An Internet Near You
( Nazra Z ) Amazon really, really wants to be your everything store. They do tech, they do digital goods, they do groceries, they even d...
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are eleven of the best photos that readers added to the Consumerist Flickr Pool in the last week, picked for usability in a Consumeris...
3 More Toxic Salad Beetles Show Up In Canada And Texas
Maybe save this post until you’re done eating your salad. It turns out that fleeing to Canada won’t keep you safe from the Salad Beetle S...