Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Has Someone Stolen That Ego You Were So Desperate To Lose?


From the Better Late Than Never Department comes this news that hackers breached the firewall of the SYDA bookstore accounts and stole an undetermined number of credit card numbers and their associated financial data. You can view the DataLoss report on the incident here (cut and paste url into your address bar):

http://datalossdb.org/incidents/2402-website-hack-provides-unauthorised-access-to-credit-card-information

Interesting how SYDA does not give a date when the incident occured. However, they let SIX WEEKS pass in between the time they discovered the hack (Jan 4, 2008) and the day they finally reported it to the authorities (February 21, 2008). Let's chalk that up to 2 weeks of incompetence and 4 weeks of attempted cover up.

None of the lost data has ever been recovered, no arrests have been made and--as of yet--no lawsuits have been filed in connection with this breach of security, according to the report.

So, if you suffered any financial/credit card related fraud issues in Jan/Feb of 2008, and you purchased anything from the crookstore via credit card at any time in the past, I'd start looking for a link if I were you. Because I can't believe SYDA would not be liable for allowing your personal financial info to sit in the hands of identity fraudsters for 6 weeks without doing anything about it.

SYDA's belated filings, including names and contact information of SYDA General Counsel Ken Braziller, and SYDA Board of Trustees Officer Joseph Buga can be found in the PDF docs embedded within the above website page.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do not mean to demean these quests but this is why young people in India stay away from religion. The fun excuse they give is they have to sin first as young people and only then can they seek for some purification ritual. I have lived in India almost all my life and have never heard of these people SY guys. But that might be because the cities are mostly wary of such cults. I have read some of your earlier posts and I realise how deep you were into that. Anyways as they are talking about on the Guru looked good blog there might be justice soon.

Valtzgy said...

Do not mean to demean these quests but this is why young people in India stay away from religion. The fun excuse they give is they have to sin first as young people and only then can they seek for some purification ritual. I have lived in India almost all my life and have never heard of these people SY guys. But that might be because the cities are mostly wary of such cults. I have read some of your earlier posts and I realise how deep you were into that. Anyways as they are talking about on the Guru looked good blog there might be justice soon.