Japanese store fights second-hand PS5 resale, CAF site and app crashed that exposes users’ personal data, buyer received RTX 3080 graphics card with one year late, it’s the recap of the day.
Japanese store declares war on PS5 scalpers
Almost a year after it hit the market, the PlayStation 5 is still just as hard to find. Besides the high demand and production difficulties faced by Sony, the shortage is also largely due to speculators who buy PS5s en masse in order to resell them at high prices in the second-hand market. To put an end to the speculation, the Japanese store Nojima Denki decided to write the name of each buyer on the console box. This could be effective, because we can imagine that scalpers wish to remain anonymous.
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A failure of the CAF site gives access to user data
Reports multiplied yesterday morning on Twitter and Down Detector: the CAF site and application were down. The consequences have greatly upset users who have seen their personal data exposed. Indeed, when they connected, users had the unpleasant surprise to see other people’s information displayed. The organization had to put its site under maintenance and it could read “… in order to completely secure the situation, the My Account Space and the mobile application are currently closed”.
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He receives his RTX 3080 1 year after ordering it
As we know, the shortage of components is hitting manufacturers hard, who are unable to offer stocks large enough to meet demand. Also some orders are still waiting to arrive at their destination. After waiting a year for his RTX 3080 graphics card, a buyer decided to send a “birthday cake” to the dealer, on which you can see an RTX 3080 with the message ” One year together “. The buyer also added the order number to make sure the dealer could easily find his file. The latter was rewarded for this touch of humor since he received his RTX 3080 a few days later.
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