Something brought up on Reddit that I found interesting, one (supposedly) real situation and one hypothetical
A) Acme Company gives a dissatisfied customer, John Doe, a coupon code for a free product and tells them only to use it once. However, John not only finds that it works multiple times, but shares it on a public forum and thousands of customers use it to order free product. The company contracts out fulfillment so most of these orders get out and are shipped before they realize what’s going on.
B) Jane Doe is goofing around on an ATM and finds that if you punch in a specific string of digits, a software bug causes it to dispense a $20 bill without debiting her account. Jane draws out hundreds of dollars before deciding she better leave. Jane shares the information on an internet forum and the bank loses many thousands of dollars before figuring out what’s going on and fixing the software bug.
Who is civilly or criminally liable, and for what and how much?