For the last few weeks now, it’s been public knowledge that it has been pwned in some sort of “cybersecurity incident.” For context, here’s a list of stories that I’ve written about this:
Today is July 6th and Petro Canada finally, and I do mean FINALLY has something to say on the matter. This email just hit my inbox:
You can also read the email online here.
So since I am a member of the Petro Points program, the threat actors now have my name, mailing address, and email address along with my phone number and date of birth. That pretty much guarantees that I along with every other member of the Petro Points program are going have very targeted attacks aimed at me in the near future. Not to mention the threat actors will make attempts at stealing my identity. I can also say that it’s a pretty safe bet that someone is going to find this response by Petro Canada to be inadequate and contact a lawyer to file a class action lawsuit. If that happens, I will be joining said lawsuit.
Honestly, after reading this I will not be able to trust Petro Canada again. Sure they could come out with a more detailed statement offering up how they got pwned, and what they’re doing to ensure that they don’t get pwned again. And they can do something more than offer up a credit of Petro Points. For example. Credit monitoring for the next year or two for every Petro Points customer would be a good start. But I don’t see that happening. Thus when this is resolved, whenever that is, I will be cashing out my Petro Points and I will not be doing business with Petro Canada again. But I will be watching this story closely as I fully expect that there will be a lot of developments in the days and weeks ahead.
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BREAKING: Petro Canada FINALLY Says Something About Being Pwned
For the last few weeks now, it’s been public knowledge that it has been pwned in some sort of “cybersecurity incident.” For context, here’s a list of stories that I’ve written about this:
Today is July 6th and Petro Canada finally, and I do mean FINALLY has something to say on the matter. This email just hit my inbox:
You can also read the email online here.
So since I am a member of the Petro Points program, the threat actors now have my name, mailing address, and email address along with my phone number and date of birth. That pretty much guarantees that I along with every other member of the Petro Points program are going have very targeted attacks aimed at me in the near future. Not to mention the threat actors will make attempts at stealing my identity. I can also say that it’s a pretty safe bet that someone is going to find this response by Petro Canada to be inadequate and contact a lawyer to file a class action lawsuit. If that happens, I will be joining said lawsuit.
Honestly, after reading this I will not be able to trust Petro Canada again. Sure they could come out with a more detailed statement offering up how they got pwned, and what they’re doing to ensure that they don’t get pwned again. And they can do something more than offer up a credit of Petro Points. For example. Credit monitoring for the next year or two for every Petro Points customer would be a good start. But I don’t see that happening. Thus when this is resolved, whenever that is, I will be cashing out my Petro Points and I will not be doing business with Petro Canada again. But I will be watching this story closely as I fully expect that there will be a lot of developments in the days and weeks ahead.
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