The holiday’s may be in full swing but the pwnage continues. Today’s story of pwnage is Nissan Canada’s financial arm who posted this notice on their website right before the holidays to say this:
Nissan Canada Finance recently became aware it was the victim of a data breach that may have involved unauthorized person(s) gaining access to the personal information of some customers that have financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services Canada.Â
The company is offering the following:
NCF is taking prompt action to notify potentially affected customers and is offering them 12 months of credit monitoring services through TransUnion at no cost. While the precise number of customers affected by this breach is not yet known, out of abundance of caution, NCF is notifying all its customers and is providing them with credit monitoring services even if their personal information may not have actually been affected.Â
In addition to alerting our customers, NCF has contacted Canadian privacy regulators, law enforcement, and leading data security experts to help rapidly investigate this matter.
Now what was scooped up in this event? Customer names, address, vehicle make and model, vehicle identification number (VIN), credit score, loan amount and monthly payment may have been swiped and Nissan figured it out on December 11th. Though the world didn’t find out until December 21st. It isn’t clear at this point the exact number of people who might have been affected by this pwnage. If you’re a customer of Nissan Canada Financial and you feel the least bit paranoid, and you should feel paranoid, you can phone 1-877-224-4711.
In the meantime, I hope the federal government is watching this situation as this illustrates the need for strict laws in Canada to forces companies to not only invest in defending against being pwned, but to rapidly disclose pwnage when it happens.
Rogers Seems To Have Widespread Issues With Their Gigabit Internet Offering…. Sigh
Posted in Commentary with tags Rogers on December 27, 2017 by itnerdOver the last ten days or so, my normally fast gigabit Internet service with Rogers has become problematic again. To give you some perspective, I normally get about 900 Mbps downstream from a wired connection on the modem. Now I am lucky to get 450 to 500 Mbps. I was going to say that I had a problem with my area as this unfortunately is not the first rodeo when it comes to dealing with substantially slower speeds with Rogers gigabit Internet offering. But on a hunch, I decided to look at Twitter to see if I was the only one with these issues. It turns out that I am not:
Now if I scroll back through Twitter, there has been the odd Tweet about Rogers gigabit Internet being slow. But the pace of complaints via Twitter seems to have picked up right around the time I started to have problems again. Thus this implies that Rogers has a widespread issue of some sort with their gigabit offering.
Seeing as this is my third go round in just over a year with not getting close to gigabit speeds with Rogers, I am seriously entertaining switching to Bell. Sure they have problematic customer service and have been accused of being a bit shady at times. But everyone in my condo who has their gigabit Internet offering is getting gigabit or better speeds all the time. Having a service that delivers what is promised all the time is increasingly looking appealing despite the risk of going with a company with questionable customer service. When I work up the courage, because it does require courage to call Rogers, I will do so to see if I can get this resolved. If I can’t, I know where my next call is going.
Updates as they come.
UPDATE: In the last ten minutes, I’ve gotten emails from Rogers customers who have experienced what I have experienced. That’s pretty telling and illustrates that Rogers has a problem with their gigabit Internet service that extends beyond yours truly.
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