More good news: Acer security breached

Published on June 18, 2016 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

This just in from our Canadian reporter Hankers:

“Unfortunately, for Acer customers, the company suffered a data breach of its own which has affected its US e-commerce site. Customers who have used the site between May 12, 2015 and April 28, 2016 may have had their personal information accessed by an unauthorized third party.

…information affected by the breach potentially included names, addresses, credit cards, expirations dates and CCV security codes.” – Neowin

No free credit monitoring with this one, though…so, if you’re affected, you might want to change out your credit card…

Source:

http://www.neowin.net/news/acer-suffers-privacy-breach-exposing-customer-information

Comments

WOM

on Jun 18, 2016

And the banks want to use only electronic transactions, no money.

kryo

on Jun 18, 2016

and CCV security codes

I hope to hear news next that the CC companies have blacklisted Acer and are holding them liable for all fraudulent charges. The fact that the CVV codes were potentially compromised suggests they were storing them, which is a blatant violation of PCI-DSS requirements.

DrJBHL

on Jun 18, 2016

^That.

ElanaAhova

on Jun 18, 2016

cash i so much safer. too bad the rulers want to eliminate physical cash and make it all 'electronic.'

Uvah

on Jun 18, 2016

I don't do credit cards. Never had one, don't want one. Nope

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