15 Jan 2008
Dreamhost billing cock-up shocks customer bank accounts

As if we needed a good reason to be leery of "automated payments" ...

Customers of the Los Angeles-based web hosting provider Dreamhost awoke to an unwelcome pang in their wallets today. A late-night accounting cock-up caused every customer to be charged a year's worth of truant payments when the wrong date was slipped in its automated billing program.

(link) [The Register]

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