Ruth Schmuff just sent a warning email to her Bedecked and Beaddazzled newsletter recipients and regular customers that someone has hacked her customer database and has added code that sends emails anyone placing an order asking for their credit card numbers to be emailed to whoever's pretending to be Ruth "to confirm their purchase." DON'T DO IT! Ruth never ever does business this way.
It's a good time to remember that any website is vulnerable to this sort of thing and doing business by phone is safer. No one is safe these days from cyber criminals but it helps to do business via check or Paypal or phone when you can. If you get a request for your credit card info via email, check before you send it and give it over the phone if you can. No email is totally secure.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
3 comments:
Good information!
We always tell our userbase that "email is no more secure than a picture-postcard. Would you put all your credit-card details on the back of a postcard?" - it gives them pause...
Glenis
You have THAT right, Glenis!
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