*URGENT* RE: PINK SPOT vapors email hacked

[TigerLadyTX]

I received two really weird e-mails from Pink Spot Vapors today advising me that they needed me to click the link below for "security purposes". Rather than do that, because the email itself was written VERY strangely, I went to their site and this is written on the home page:

IMPORTANT 2/13/13: This morning, hacker-jerks accessed our account on MailChimp, the service we use to send out email newsletters. They have sent several messages to our customers asking them to click and fill out a form. DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK, IT IS SPAM. The Pink Spot Vapors site and ALL user name, address and billing information is secure. The ONLY user information in our MailChimp is email addresses. Pink Spot Vapors values your business and your privacy. We will NEVER ask for payment by email and will NEVER EVER share your personal information with any third party.

Soooooo.. do NOT click the link in those emails!!

~Tiger

 

[Leatherneck]

I don't click on any links from within emails. Safest way to do things.

If I get an email from what purports to be any group, say the IRS, and I have to log in to do something, I go to my browser and navigate straight to it.

You can sorta hide the destination of a link within an email. Let's continue the example above. In the email, the text you're reading might say "www.irs.gov". But the part you don't see is where the link tells the computer to go to when it's clicked. Furthering the hypothetical above, even though the text says "www.irs.gov", it might take you to "irs.scumbags.net". If you're not careful it will take you to someplace you didn't intend to go. Then you'll often be presented with what looks exactly like the IRS website (very, very, very easy to do by the way) as they hope to get people who aren't careful to give them their login information.

Safest and best is to not click any links from emails. None. Ever. I don't care if it looks like the email came from your sweet old Aunt May. Her account might have been hacked and they're sending out emails to entrap the uneducated.

Scumbaggery exists everywhere. Be vigilant and don't click those damn links.

 

[Thrill]

I ordered from Pink Spot a few days before they were hacked, and I received the email, but I hadn't opened the email from them. My email account was hacked tonight, and I'm just wondering if anyone else who was a recent customer of theirs also had their email account hacked. My PS password and email password weren't the same, but I'm just a little suspicious of the timing of it all. It could totally be a coincidence, I just thought I would post here to see if anyone else had the same experience.

 

[Butters78]

I wouldn't trust a service called "mailchimp" to begin with.