play.com customers - want some more spam?

Four_Candles · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2009 **Posts:** 876

Email addresses of play.com customers compromised by a company that handles their marketing comms:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22 ... ware_spam/

Eejits.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14527

Four_Candles wrote:

Email addresses of play.com customers compromised by a company that handles their marketing comms:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22 ... ware_spam/

Eejits.

I got the email from Play this morning

Four_Candles · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2009 **Posts:** 876

Got my email last night as well.

So yet more spam for my inbox ............

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:15

zaphod79 wrote:

Four_Candles wrote:

Email addresses of play.com customers compromised by a company that handles their marketing comms:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/22 ... ware_spam/

Eejits.

I got the email from Play this morning

Alarm · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 15:20

I got the email last night too.

Mr Dom · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 15:44

many moons ago, I signed up for a Plusnet dial-up on demand account, which came with a full POP3 email account, so I can use <anything>@myemail. Luckily, I signed up to Play as 'play@myemail', so tis a matter of seconds to set up a rule to delete any more mail incoming to that address

Moral of the story - only sign up to a provider who offers full email POP3 accounts

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12359

Mr Dom wrote:

many moons ago, I signed up for a Plusnet dial-up on demand account, which came with a full POP3 email account, so I can use <anything>@myemail. Luckily, I signed up to Play as 'play@myemail', so tis a matter of seconds to set up a rule to delete any more mail incoming to that address

Moral of the story - only sign up to a provider who offers full email POP3 accounts

If you're on that there gmail then [email protected] is the same as [email protected] is the same as [email protected]

which makes filtering even more of a breeze.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Mr Russell wrote:

Mr Dom wrote:

many moons ago, I signed up for a Plusnet dial-up on demand account, which came with a full POP3 email account, so I can use <anything>@myemail. Luckily, I signed up to Play as 'play@myemail', so tis a matter of seconds to set up a rule to delete any more mail incoming to that address

Moral of the story - only sign up to a provider who offers full email POP3 accounts

If you're on that there gmail then [email protected] is the same as [email protected] is the same as [email protected]

which makes filtering even more of a breeze.

Someone I knew once made quite a bit of money* by using specific email addresses for individual online retailers/other, and then raising complaints when he received spam and other shit to that specific email, despite having opted out of all marketing stuff.

*not enough to retire on.

Alarm · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 23:01

Mr. Play just sent me another email. Erm, woot? :shrug:

Nik · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1982

Should I be worried that I haven't had the email from Play yet?

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 23:13

Nik wrote:

Should I be worried that I haven't had the email from Play yet?

But now I think about it.. I haven't had an email off them for ages! Only the usual invoices etc.

Not that I'm complaining mind.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14527

I've had the 2nd email (copy below) I've read that they were targetting the messages so you only got it if your details were 'potentially' compromised , however I'd not really trust it - i'm lucky in that my play account password is one I dont use for anything else and i've now changed but its not good when things like this go wrong :-(

Quote:

Dear Customer,
As a follow up to the email we sent you last night, I would like to give you some further details. On Sunday the 20th of March some customers reported receiving a spam email to email addresses they only use for Play.com. We reacted immediately by informing all our customers of this potential security breach in order for them to take the necessary precautionary steps.
We believe this issue may be related to some irregular activity that was identified in December 2010 at our email service provider, Silverpop. Investigations at the time showed no evidence that any of our customer email addresses had been downloaded. We would like to assure all our customers that the only information communicated to our email service provider was email addresses. Play.com have taken all the necessary steps with Silverpop to ensure a security breach of this nature does not happen again.
We would also like to reassure our customers that all other personal information (i.e. credit cards, addresses, passwords, etc.) are kept in the very secure Play.com environment. Play.com has one of the most stringent internal standards of e-commerce security in the industry. This is audited and tested several times a year by leading internet security companies to ensure this high level of security is maintained. On behalf of Play.com, I would like to once again apologise to our customers for any inconvenience due to a potential increase in spam that may be caused by this issue .
Best regards,
John
John Perkins
CEO
Play.com

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 0:01

Mr Dom wrote:

Moral of the story - only sign up to a provider who offers full email POP3 accounts

Or just buy your own domains and run catch-all addresses

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Be Excellent To Each Other

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