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Australian Website Waits Three Years To Inform Customers of Data Breach

Posted by Unknown on from the better-never-than-late dept.

AlbanX (2847805) writes Australian daily deals website Catch of the Day waited three years to tell its customers their email addresses, delivery addresses, hashed passwords, and some credit card details had been stolen. Its systems were breached in April 2011 and the company told police, banks and credit cards issuers, but didn't tell the Privacy Commissioner or customers until July 18th.

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  1. Q&A with CotD support person ... by davidmwilliams · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is my story on this event, including (page 2) a "Q&A" I managed to get from them where they avoided most of my questions: http://www.itwire.com/business...

  2. Users thought it was fishy in 2012 by davidmwilliams · · Score: 4, Informative

    Catch of the day users noticed something was fishy back in February 2012. "We take data security seriously" said Catch of the Day rep. Yet CotD continued to choose not to tell anyone: http://www.itwire.com/business...