Once, only once, did I order shoes from Zappos. The money I saved buying running shoes online, instead of at Marathon Sports, wasn’t worth the hassle of having to deal with the likelihood that my account information was hacked. Zappos is owned by Amazon, so I’m changing my login there, too.
First, the bad news:
We are writing to let you know that there may have been illegal and unauthorized access to some of your customer account information on Zappos.com, including one or more of the following: your name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, the last four digits of your credit card number (the standard information you find on receipts), and/or your cryptographically scrambled password (but not your actual password).
THE BETTER NEWS:
The database that stores your critical credit card and other payment data was NOT affected or accessed.
It’s a good thing we have hackers to reveal all of those security holes!
I got this recently:
To All Care2 Members:
We have discovered that Care2.com servers were attacked, resulting in a security breach. The hackers were able to access login information for Care2 member accounts. Our team has worked to secure Care2.com against this type of attack from recurring.
To protect Care2 members we are resetting access to all Care2 accounts. The next time you login to Care2, you will be automatically emailed a new password, which will enable you to access your Care2 account as usual.