Seriously, Harrods *Again*?!

Oh, for the love of all that is holy… or unholy, given the state of things. Harrods, yeah, that Harrods – the fancy department store where rich people spend money they probably shouldn’t – got breached. Again. This time around, roughly 430,000 customer records are flapping in the digital wind.

What’s exposed? Names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth… basically everything a decent identity thief needs to ruin your life. They’re claiming no financial data was nicked this time, which is *fantastic* because that would be even more irritating. The breach apparently stemmed from a third-party vendor – surprise, surprise. It’s always some idiot subcontractor, isn’t it?

They detected the intrusion on December 28th and are now scrambling to notify people. Scrambling. Like they should have been doing years ago with proper security measures. The usual song and dance: monitoring, blah, blah, blah. They’re offering credit monitoring, which is a pathetic band-aid on a gaping wound.

Honestly, if you shop at Harrods, you probably don’t need to worry about the money. You have plenty. But still… it’s just infuriatingly incompetent. And predictable. Utterly, predictably incompetent.

Source: BleepingComputer – Harrods Suffers New Data Breach

You know, I once had to debug a system where the security logs were being overwritten every five minutes because someone thought it was a good idea to use them for… wait for it… *marketing data*. Marketing. Seriously. People are unbelievable. This Harrods thing? Same energy. Just pure, unadulterated stupidity.

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