I dont know no about you but I take my online security pretty damn seriously! So you can only imagine what was going through my head when I received an email about how Play.com had a massive date security breach! I have also heard that there was a similar problem with trip advisor as well, but fortunately for me I have never used trip advisor (Thank god).
Basically if you don’t know anything about this, or it’s the first time you’ve heard about this both websites had an unauthorised third party steal a large amount of customers data from them.In the case of play.com it was stolen from a marketing firm called “SilverPop”.
Also in the news today it has also come to light that a member of the public has reported that the website for Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre’s which has a form to report alleged offenders was yes, you guessed unencrypted.
It really has annoyed me that even a government run website is so stupid not to check even the simplest of security protocol! Especially as it is run by CEOP!
As for the play.com incident I wonder how this will effect their online business? I certainly after this little incident will NOT be using them again.
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