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#1 Oct 09 2012 at 7:48 AM Rating: Excellent
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PlaySpan wrote:
What happened?

Last week, the PlaySpan team detected that an outside intruder had illegally accessed servers containing PlaySpan Marketplace customer information. We immediately shut down the intruder’s access to the PlaySpan network and took steps to protect your PlaySpan account. We then commenced a comprehensive forensic analysis and are working with law enforcement to investigate the crime.

Our investigation has revealed that the information involved was limited to user IDs, email addresses and encrypted passwords.The affected servers did not contain payment account (credit card, debit card or prepaid card) information, and therefore no such data was compromised.

What does this mean for you?

Stored passwords in the PlaySpan system have a layer of encryption to mask them. However, as an added precaution, we immediately locked your account and then closed the PlaySpan Marketplace site for good, a business decision that we have recently been evaluating. As a result, the stolen information can no longer be used for any purpose on PlaySpan.

As a reminder, best on-line practices suggest it is always safest to make sure you are using different passwords for your different online activities, so that any single intrusion does not affect multiple accounts. Therefore, if you happen to use your PlaySpan Marketplace log-in information at other websites, including your e-mail provider, we encourage you to reset those passwords.

If you are also a PlaySpan Ultimate Pay user, we have already implemented an automatic reset of all user passwords. You will be prompted to reset your password the next time you log into your Ultimate Pay account.

Your security is important to us.

Security is a top priority for us, and we are redoubling our efforts to strengthen PlaySpan’s overall system security. We believe PlaySpan runs a safe and secure network, but criminals will keep getting better at what they do. We will be doing everything we can to ensure we stay a step ahead of them and keep the PlaySpan system safe.

I sincerely apologize for any frustration or inconvenience this may cause you. Even though it has become an unwelcome fact in business today, no one likes to have to share that their network has been illegally attacked by outsiders. But we know PlaySpan’s business depends on your trust, and that means our security must always be first rate. You can be assured PlaySpan is doing everything in its power to make sure your information remains safe.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact PlaySpan at support@playspan.com.

Sincerely,

Karl Mehta
CEO
PlaySpan, Inc.


I've been using them to pay for FFXI lately (it's paid though December) and I tried to log in and fix the pass but it is bugged. Hopefully they will have it fixed in a day or two; If you are using them, contact them immediately. ^^
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#2 Oct 09 2012 at 9:17 AM Rating: Good
I use UltimatePay but it's routed through PayPal. Does this affect me, I wonder?

Mayhaps I should reset my PayPal password anyway, it's about time.
#3 Oct 09 2012 at 9:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Prolly a good idea, and check your Ultimate Pay account as well and see if you need to change that pass.

Update with me, took me about 3-4 hours but I finally got my ultimate pay pass reset. Took two phone calls over Skype too (Don't laugh. Since I live with my folks, I use that b/c I refuse to make my folks pay for any long distance calls) and a lot of messing around but it's reset and I should be fine next time I put cards on it.

[Edit] For those that are cursing about this, the email you should contact is support@playspan.com and to make the call if you need to light a fire under their butts about it is 1-877-703-6339(This is ultimate pay's support number btw) If they can't help you directly, ask to get transferred to Playspan; if that doesn't work, Playspan's corporate number is (650) 432-3200; Ask to get transferred to Playspan tech support immediately since they hide their support number pretty badly >.<

[Edit]Second update; Ultimate Pay is down. Proly due to a maint; I hope it comes back up soon. I understand there has been problems, lately..I hope no one will be screwed because of this.

[Edit]Third update; It's back up.



Edited, Oct 9th 2012 8:31pm by maryadavies
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