SNAPPER HACKED?

Something very odd happened to our snapper card about a week ago. We knew at the time that we weren't the only ones - The Snapper people were very forthcoming on that one - And we cant fault their quick sort out. But today we read in the Dominion about a woman who was charged $97 for a bus fare and we wonder if the problems are a bit bigger than the ones we suffered.

We thought we had about $40 bucks on our card and then we got on the bus and it said low funds. So we went to a nearby dairy and loaded up another $50.
Then we got on the bus and still insufficient funds. The lovely bus driver said that it was common for Snapper to take 24 hours to load the balance. Anyway we didn't use the bus for a few days and then we got a call from Snapper. There had been a glitch, and my card would need replacing and they would give me a $10 credit as well for the inconvenience. We duly did but we had a real problem trying to load the card details on the web site. Anyway the Snapper people sorted that out as well.

Only thing is some of our IT mates reckon it sounds like Snapper was hacked.
This morning about 8 people seems to be very surprised to hear the bus machine tell them that they had a low balance - that's the same message we got. So we reckon that Snappers woes aren't over yet....

MORE MEDIA BASHING FROM WINSTON

And a bit of conspiracy theory chucked in for good measure

Media Trivialise Crucial Elections - Peters

Rt Hon Winston Peters has accused a number of media outlets of trivialising
general election coverage to the point of mindless banality.
This follows a request from a Sunday newspaper for Mr Peters to discuss whether he owns an iPod and the type of music he likes to listen to on it.
Earlier Mr Peters had been asked about his pets and whether he would be interviewed cooking dinner for radio pensioner Paul Holmes.
“While the Western world lurches into economic meltdown, while tens of thousands of jobs are threatened, while a New Zealand company is embroiled in an international scandal, the media airheads wandering off into cuckoo-land.
“If anyone ever thought for one nanosecond that the newspaper industry was into thoughtful and serious analysis of the issues facing New Zealand, my suggestion is that they should think again.

“The newspapers are generally lightweight ‘infotainment’ and publicity
brochures for the National and Maori parties,” said Mr Peters.

The sad thing is as I was waiting for a bus an lovely old woman decided I must look friendly enough to have a yarn to .. Unprompted she launched into a tirade about how everyone was picking on Winnie.

I suggested that maybe winnie had been a bit naughty over some money and she agreed - and then said " but none of that matters he just has such a cheeky smile and he has done so much for us oldies. "

I hope Clark goes even harder after the Grey vote..