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MoviePass is shutting down on September 14th

MoviePass is shutting down. The subscription service announced it will stop offering discounted movie tickets on Saturday, September 14th. In a press release, the company said its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.” Moving forward, all options are on the table, with MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics saying it’s […]

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Exposed MoviePass database put thousands of customers’ information at risk

Movie ticket subscription service MoviePass inadvertently exposed thousands of customer card numbers due to lax security on a critical server. Mossab Hussein, a security researcher at Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk, found an exposed database on one of the company’s many subdomains. The database was massive, containing 161 million records at the time of writing and […]