Heads up - security leak if you complained to ESRB
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Heads up - security leak if you complained to ESRB
If you complained about RealID to the ESRB, you might have had your address exposed in this way. I'd strongly recommending various safeguards, including changing your email on battle.net if you used the same email address. Be extra vigilant about incoming emails from unknown sources, scan your system diligently, and if at all possible, switch addresses. I guarantee those thousand email addresses are already on the radar of every gold seller, hacker, and phisher in the WoWiverse.
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/facepalm
EDIT: Thought this comment from the wow.com article was rather amusing.
"Dear Privacy Board:
Thank you for exposing all 961 e-mail addresses to everyone else that sent you a message concerning the privacy of their data. It's great to see that a company such as yourselves takes pride in maintaining privacy by using a CC instead of a BCC. Really. It is truly heartwarming to know that there are checks in place to prevent the accidental or intentional release of private user information such as e-mail addresses to unauthorized individuals such as myself.
I mean, knowing that such a top notch team of privacy experts ONLY puts their seal of approval on websites when a website meets those obviously stringent guidelines! Pray tell, can you elaborate as to what those policies that you hold other companies, and I'm sure yourselves, to? Because I'm really really interested to know what part of that policy says it's OK to mass mail everyone that's sent you a message of concern a response that includes everybody else's e-mail address in a very clear breach of Privacy.
I'm leaving the CC in place in case anyone didn't notice how badly you just screwed up."
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This is like installing an anti-virus that is already infected!
On one hand you'd say "OK, whoever wrote it is human and makes mistakes" but this is like seeing a cop shoplifting.
I really wonder where all this is going in the end...
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Lawsuits? It's the US after all. (Ouch broad generalisation! The sociologist in me just cringed at myself >_<) Seriously though, I guarantee people are complaining about it right now. I'm sure they'll find some suitable scape goat.Karathyriel wrote:I am so glad that canceling my account was the only thing I did.
This is like installing an anti-virus that is already infected!
On one hand you'd say "OK, whoever wrote it is human and makes mistakes" but this is like seeing a cop shoplifting.
I really wonder where all this is going in the end...
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/extremely lucky
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ESRB replied to all of those people at once, but instead of hiding the emails they were shown to every single person. You know how you get those annoying forward messages with like 15 other email addresses at the top? It was like that but on a much larger scale. Also laughably ironic considering the whole issue was regarding online privacy in the first place, and ESRB went and revealed everyone's email addresses.
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NO EFFIN WAY! That is uber stoopidSaturo wrote:They sent the mail out in a way so everyone could see everyone elses email adress, when they could just as easily have made everyone invisible to everyone else.
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