After they broke through the accounts of buyers at Zappos.com 24000000 e-commerce site, consumers are being urged to take steps to protect themselves, but state officials say there is no complete defense against pirates computer.
"This criminal case," said Barbara Anthony, Undersecretary of State for Consumer Affairs and the organization of work. "This is bad. In this case, there is no guarantee at 100 percent."
Through e-mail CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh server customers Sunday hacked to expose the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and credit card numbers and partial "quick" encrypted passwords.
A company is known online store to sell shoes.
"Close the credit card account and open a new," said Anthony. "You do not want to waste time with that."
And also advised the victims to establish a fraud alert with the credit reporting agency.
"The stolen information was serious," said Anthony. "With this information, it is possible to obtain new credit in your name."
Recommended Chris Eng, vice president of research at security firm Veracode Burlington, the use of unique passwords for different sites.
"You want to make you change your password at any other place where you can use the same password, especially if associated with the same email address," said the engineer.
The engineer was one of the 24 million people, but said that Zappos responded well by the return of all passwords.
"Normally when a violation occurs, and they of urgency, but not by force, and customers to change their passwords," he said. "This was a good move on his part."
Student at Boston University, Mike DeFilippis, 20, also received an email Zappos.
"A company and a customer service," he said. "Therefore, it seems strange that you do."
He said DeFilippis trust Zappos, and will continue to use - unlike Sony Playstation 2011, the network is also in violation of personal information
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