Walmart?s Chief Information Security Officer, Jerry Geisler, has revealed that the retailer has blocked over 20 million attempts by bots to mass purchase the PlayStation 5.
Scalpers have made the process to purchase new consoles an absolute headache for genuine buyers, many of whom are still without a console ahead of the year-end holidays. Retailers have often been criticized for not doing enough to block scalpers, resulting in Geisler penning the unusual letter. The aforementioned 20 million bot attempts were all made within 30 minutes of Walmart?s PS5 event on November 25th. The executive said that this number is only a ?fraction? of what the retailer has been dealing with.

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