Security and Online Companies
 

Well Forum Members

Like a lot of the music and film buying members of the UK public I am a regular user of Play.com.

On Tuesday morning I got an email from them entitled "Email Security Message" which basically said that a company that it deals with had a security breach and watch out for suspicious email, which you can send to them at privacy@play.com.

OK fine, I thought, but I'd already had a spam email the day before telling me that Adobe X, i.e. 10, was available and to click here (???) to download. Luckily for me I'd seen the same type of bogus email before because it was sent to me at my workplace two to three months earlier.

Anyway, when deleting this bogus Adobe X email I was thinking "How did they get my home email?"

Now I know after reading the following story:

BBC News - Play.com warns of customer e-mail security breach

It seems that the security breach happened at "Silverpop" last year but Play.com kept it secret until bogus emails started to bombard its regular customers.

The question that now bugs me is why didn't Play.com inform it's customers earlier that their email addresses had been compromised instead of waiting for malware loaded spam to appear?



UK Bob

stupid question really...

**edit**I mean, we're living in a corrupt, lying, cover upping world where people with a reactor that has a damaged containment vessel and spent fuel rods on fire are seriously (?) comparing it to Three Mile Island...yeah, righto...TMI release some radioactive steam to blow off pressure being caused by a partial meltdown...

Fukushima blew up!...yep, sure...same level of danger...:rolleyes:

Well, take no prisoners, Peerless

I knew the answer before I typed out the question and was motivated by getting some sort of debate going in our now sparsely visited forum.

Anyway, regardless of my "pointless" question in the face of such human tragedy happening on the other side of the world, all I can say is that all Governments cover up stuff and they all lie to their people.

The simple fact is that the Internet, with it’s ability to allow ordinary people to communicate on a world-wide scale, make it more difficult for our Governments to treat us like mushrooms, i.e. kept in the dark and fed bullsh!t.



UK Bob

I agree, UK Bob.

Obviously, Play is more concerned about their reputation than they are about customers' privacy. It's like the auto manufacturers, who calculated how much money is saved by paying off so many wrongful death claims instead of issuing a recall of their faulty product.

The good news is that the internet is demonstrating that the pen (or "e-pen") remains mightier than the sword. And the whole world is watching.

It is said that the best rulers keep their subjects' stomachs full and minds empty. Now that governments are having trouble on both fronts, the times, they are a-changin'.

Yes Blackhorse 70V

The e-pen is indeed mightier than the fork tongues of politicians.


UK Bob

actually, that sentiment is why I took the time to edit my post and add in some 'reasoning'...I wasn't trying to insult you, rather point out the obviousness of the fact that it is, and has been for a LONG time, the trend to lie and obfuscate as opposed to being honest...