Clearly a lot of companies are being paranoid about getting pwned by hackers as over the weekend, Petro Canada sent out e-mails to participants of their Petro Points program to change their passwords. Here’s a picture of the e-mail:
Now, unlike the e-mail that Cineplex users got, they spun this in a way made you to more likely to not question whether this e-mail was real or not. That’s likely to make sure that users are more likely to change their password. Though, I will admit that this still has a “blame the user” feel to it. But having said that clearly the Loblaw and Canadian Tire hacks has Canadian businesses spooked.
Petro Canada Suggests That Users Change Their Passwords
Posted in Commentary with tags Petro Canada, Security on February 26, 2017 by itnerdClearly a lot of companies are being paranoid about getting pwned by hackers as over the weekend, Petro Canada sent out e-mails to participants of their Petro Points program to change their passwords. Here’s a picture of the e-mail:
Now, unlike the e-mail that Cineplex users got, they spun this in a way made you to more likely to not question whether this e-mail was real or not. That’s likely to make sure that users are more likely to change their password. Though, I will admit that this still has a “blame the user” feel to it. But having said that clearly the Loblaw and Canadian Tire hacks has Canadian businesses spooked.
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