Following this weekend’s big story on Zappos being hacked, the shoe retailer has been sued by an angry customer.
The customer claims Zappos did not properly “maintain adequate procedures for protecting customers? personal information.” 24 million accounts were compromised over the weekend in the largest breach of security since the PSN hack in April 2011.
Original Story:
Late last night, I received an email, as did 24 million other account holders, that our Zappos accounts had been hacked and we needed to change our passwords.
The popular shoe retailer owned by Amazon says that information such as names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and encrypted versions of account passwords were likely compromised.
Zappos says all credit card numbers and other payment information were not accessed, since they were housed in a different database.
Additionally, Zappo’s discounted 6PM.com site was also hacked in the same attack. At 24 million compromised, the attack is the largest since Sony’s PlayStation Network was taken down in April 2011, compromising data on 101 million gamers.
The retailer reset everyone’s passwords, but has shut off its phone lines, meaning all customer service requests will go to email.
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Microsoft has begun offering Windows 7 Service Pack 1 via Windows Update today, as promised earlier in the month.
The 32-bit version of SP1 is around 755MB and the 64-bit edition comes in at around 1GB.
Says Microsoft:
Starting today, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 will be available to everyone via the Microsoft Download Center and [will] start rolling out via Windows Update.
If you prefer to have a disc, you can get one sent to you for $6 from Microsoft, including shipping.
The public beta of the SP was released in July 2010, and Microsoft launched the release candidate in October. The SP1 brings no new features, but is instead a collection of security patches and nonsecurity fixes already available through Windows Update.
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NTT DoCoMo has announced this week the launch of Xi, the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) data service in Japan.
The carrier will begin the rollout on December 24th.
Xi should offer download speeds as high as 75 Mbps, ten times faster than the carrier’s current FOMA 3G.
While it will not immediately be available for smartphone owners, the company will start selling USB dongles in December that will allow computers to connect to the lightning fast data service.
Phones with Xi support will start shipping in April, 2011.
Initial cities to have the service are Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka.
DoCoMo will offer two billing plans, each with contract. The first is for up to 5GB per cycle, but pricing is unavailable. The unlimited plan will cost 4935 yen, or about $60 USD.
