Dorm management refuses to cover costs after payment system borked

More than a thousand university students in the Netherlands must continue to travel to wash their clothes after their building management company failed to bring its borked smart laundry machines back online.

The Spinozacampus laundry room, which caters to around 1,250 University of Amsterdam students, has remained closed since July after an unknown attacker tampered with all five machines' digital payment system, allowing residents to wash their clothes for free.

The attack has still not been resolved. Management company Duwo kept the room open, allowing students to capitalize on the free washing services, for a few weeks, but now says it refuses to foot the bill.

The Register asked Duwo for more information, but we're told its spokesperson is taking a long weekend, so all we have to go on is a brief statement given to Dutch site Folia, which first reported the news.

"Because we purchase the ...