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[AutobotCliffjumper]

FINALLY, NEW FORUM! Interestingly enough it took a HUGE fudge up to finally get the ball rolling on the right direction. Still not happy about the security/fraudulent charges on my account.

[Trikeboy]

Instead of continuing to proceed their career in credit reports, has the club actually said sorry and accepted full responsibility yet?

[Seibertron]

Instead of continuing to proceed their career in credit reports, has the club actually said sorry and accepted full responsibility yet?

They're apologized, not sure about accepting full responsibility. They might not be able to legally, I'm assuming that's the advice a lawyer would give them (which I hope they have consulted because this is all extremely serious and delicate stuff). Their latest apology is in the email that was quoted in the latest news story about this.

As we continue to work on our systems, you will see some of our services go offline and then come back, so please be patient as we preserve data and clone servers and websites.

We are also taking this opportunity to remove all non-essential services from our ecomerce server. So in the short term in the next day or so, the club forums will be discontinued. It will be several days until we are ready to bring them back under an entierly new piece of software. I know alot of you have been asking for this so, we have decided to replace several of our systems with new packages. This means that you will not have access to the forum for a while at all. We do plan to make the old forum viewable (no posts) in the future.

Since we do not know exactly what data was taken, we are recommending that if your have used common logins or passwords with our system and any other system that your change your passwords in those systems immidiately (especially any financial sysstems)! We will be resetting all of the passwords in our system very soon. Please don't delay in changing your passwords in other locations.

In addition, we have found a few recent aticles concerning security issues with other vendors. If you use these services, these issues could possibly impact you. Please read the attached links:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/1 ... 68593.html?

http://www.greenpois0n.co/itunes-accoun ... redit.html

Thanks for your support in this difficult time. We will continue to work with our vendors to correct the issues and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused any of our members.

Brian Savage

[Autobot032]

Again?? REALLY??

-_- *sighs*

[mattwhite924]

They didn't encrypt the passwords!? Who the heck is running that site, a 4 year-old?

There is absolutely NO excuse for not encrypting passwords.

[DevastaTTor]

Jeez, what's next?!? I guess tomorrow they'll be telling us all to change our names and enter the witness relocation program!

[Naked Magnus]

They didn't encrypt the passwords!? Who the heck is running that site, a 4 year-old?

There is absolutely NO excuse for not encrypting passwords.

That is correct. I am a professional software developer and have a masters degree in computer science. The entire site is built like sites were literally 10 years ago. Either they do not want to invest the money to modernize or their own in-house developers are seriously behind the times. Their software is a complete hackjob by todays standards. Nobody uses Cold Fusion anymore. I used to, but that was in 2002.

I haven't done shopping cart sites in a long time, but I can't help but think there are off-the-shelf products out there that could easily be customized in a short period of time to replace this legacy piece of garbage.

It isn't hard to encrypt passwords. Either they are too lazy or their developers are compete idiots. It is completely trivial now'adays to encrypt passwords. Probably writing a migration script to encrypt the existing passwords is beyond their technical capabilities.

Seriously, we need to stop putting up with this crap. Another option for them is to outsource the online store to an entity that knows what it is doing.

[funeralthirst7]

Using pictures of Swindle to accompany the article is great touch.

[Stormrider]

What has me must concerned is our personal information being taken. Name, address, etc. That's how my identity got stolen.

[shin_hibiki]

Highlighting the failures of other websites is a distraction and doesn't take away from your own flop. I'm sure anybody who got hit at iTunes is aware of it already.