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Popular music service Spotify has announced that their servers have been breached by hackers, but they seem to believe that there is little for their users to worry about.
This attack is the latest in a spurt of hacks that have plagued a number of online services and brick and mortar retail chains in recent months. [Read more…]
Well, another giant website has been hacked. This time it’s eBay, the iconic online auction site and digital marketplace.
eBay issued a statement this morning saying that hackers have managed to steal customer names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and encrypted account passwords. In other words, this one is BIG folks.
If you have an eBay account, you need to log in and change your password immediately. You might also want to start monitoring your credit reports along with your bank account and credit card statements just to be on the safe side.
Important: Please consider sharing this in order to warn as many of your friends as possible.
Comcast has just announced that their servers have been hacked. They say they have found no evidence that any sensitive customer data has been stolen, but if you have a Comcast account I suggest changing your password ASAP as a precaution.
The hackers apparently gained access to Comcast’s webmail servers, not the servers containing their customers’ personal and financial data. But how do they know for sure? I say better safe than sorry. [Read more…]
Target has announced that approximately 40 million customers who shopped at one of their brick and mortar retail stores between November 27 and December 15 have had their credit card or debit card information stolen during one of the most successful hacking attempts in history.
If you shopped at Target during that time frame and paid for your purchases with a credit or debit card, you are quite possibly one of the victims.
If you think this might apply to you, I recommend that you do the following ASAP: [Read more…]