PSA: Geeks.com hacked, customer data stolen

[unixronin]

If you've bought anything from geeks.com in the last year or so, you many want to take appropriate measures.  Geeks.com reports that they "recently discovered on December 5, 2007 that customer information, including Visa credit card information, may have been compromised."  Why it took them from December 5 until January 4 to actually tell anyone is a question you might want to take up with them, if your card may have been one of those compromised.

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

At least they told us.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Indeed. A month later, but they told us.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

including holiday time and having to ship 1000 orders, yah, they probably were as timely as their lawyers allowed them to be.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"The first thing we do is, we kill all the lawyers."