LulzSec strikes again.
The CBC is reporting that the notorious hacker group has posted the account info from 62,000 accounts including ones from Facebook, PayPal, Xbox Live, and Twitter:
On its Twitter account, LulzSec said it uploaded the file to a file-sharing site Thursday morning. The site took it down, but it was uploaded again Thursday evening and taken down once more. LulzSec reported thousands of downloads before it was removed.
The group’s Twitter feed contains bragging from people who claim to have taken the information and logged on to people’s personal sites: taking money from PayPal accounts, replacing dating site profile pictures with pornographic images, and engaging in chats on other people’s Facebook.
“Envelope yourself in the sickening realization that you secretly love f–king someone’s Facebook life beyond repair,” says one tweet from LulzSec.
My advice, you need to change your passwords RIGHT NOW if you value your security. In the meantime, all of these sites really need to step up their security so that groups like LulzSec stay out of the news.
It’s Happening Again…. I Can’t Buy Parallels Desktop Using Paypal [UPDATED]
Posted in Commentary with tags Parallels Desktop, Paypal on October 13, 2011 by itnerdI don’t get it. After my last rants about not being able to buy Parallels Desktop using PayPal, you’d think that Parallels would make sure that their launch of Parallels Desktop would include a check to see that purchasing via PayPal works. I suspect that they didn’t and as a result I’m running into exactly the same issue as I did the last time.
Now, the fact that I have to write about this again is really sad. Given the recent results of terms that are used in search engines that refer traffic to my blog, I’d say that others are having the same issue. I really want Parallels to explain and fix their issues with PayPal. That would show that Parallels really cares about their customers.
Honestly, I don’t want to write about this a third time.
UPDATE: I got an e-mail from someone who had has a similar problem. Here’s what they said:
“I came across your posts via Google after running into the same problems that you did. I sent them a Tweet to their Twitter account looking for help and have received no feedback from them. This is pitiful customer service. I seriously doubt that I will buy another product from this company.”
Parallels clearly has an issue that they need to address. The question is, why won’t they? It’s clear that I’m not the only one out there who is having problems purchasing from them. But their silence shows that they aren’t interested in having happy customers.
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