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noenzyme | 10 years ago

Same thing happened to Costco a few weeks ago. Maybe the same company behind both. From http://www.costcophotocenter.com/

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As a result of recent reports suggesting that there may have been a security compromise of the third party vendor that hosts Costcophotocenter.com, we are temporarily suspending access to the site. We take the security of our members’ data seriously, which is why we are taking this precautionary step. This decision does not affect any other Costco website or our in-store operations, including in-store photo centers.

This situation is affecting multiple online photo sites. We are diligently working to determine when we can re-enable the site, but in all likelihood that will not occur until the middle of August. We will update this statement when we have more information.

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vermontdevil|10 years ago

Hate when they say "We take security of our members' data seriously".

How do I know the hack was due to their incompetence? PR people need to come up with a better approach.

friendzis|10 years ago

Hate on "We take security of your data" is a new hype, but grandparent and OP actually contained blame shift:

> security compromise of the third party vendor > collected by the independent vendor <...> may have been compromised

This is the case of "sorry for my friends, I'm doing the best I can", which is entirely different situation than "I accidentally slept with your best friend, but I value our relationship" kind of PR.