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Harmony Central

Nov 24, 2009
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Boston, MA
willcady.com
Disclosures
Endorsing Artist/Product Line Manager: Source Audio Effects
I just got this email from them:

Dear Harmony Central member,

Thank you for your participation in the Harmony Central community. We are writing to inform you of an incident that took place on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, and to suggest some steps you may consider in response.

What Happened.

Someone without authorization temporarily gained access to the Harmony Central site. That person or persons also gained access to our stored member information, which includes e-mail addresses. If you have provided us with other information, like your date of birth, we have also stored that information. Our stored information also includes member passwords, which are protected by multiple levels of encryption.

Our Response.

Our team stopped this intrusion. We are working hard to further improve the security of the Harmony Central site. We regret that this incident has caused the site to go offline temporarily. We also regret any concern that this incident may cause you.

What You Can Do.

As noted above, our stored passwords are protected by multiple levels of encryption. However, out of an abundance of caution, we recommend that you reset your password as soon as Harmony Central is available.

Also, as always, please remain cautious when responding to e-mail communications. Please remember – no one from Harmony Central will ever ask you for your password or log-in information. No one from Harmony Central will ask you for a credit card number, or Social Security number, or anything of the sort. If you ever receive any message supposedly from Harmony Central asking for that or any personal information, note the sender, delete the email immediately, restart your computer, and alert us to the situation. Never click on any links or attachments contained in an email of this type.

We appreciate your patience, and expect to have the site back up soon.

Sincerely,

Your Harmony Central Team


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It's scary how vulnerable we are these days. Everything is done online, shopping, banking, etc; yet, networks are completely exposed.

I know some people who hack just for the fun. They don't do any damage. They just do it to see if they can get in places. It's remarkable how easy it is for them most times.
 
I appreciate that they didn't try to hide it.

They've actually hidden it for 3 days. Their Twitter feed since the site went down has described the outage as "maintenance" with no mention of a hacking.

# HC site down 4 emergency maintenance. We're on it & will update as soon as we're back online. 10:00 AM Dec 9th from txt

# We're still performing urgent maintenance measures on HC. Please bear with us while we sort this out. Thanks for your patience. -The HC Team 6:47 PM Dec 9th from web

# We're in Day 2 of our thorough maintenance effort. The IT team is working non-stop to get us back. Thanks for your continued patience. -HC 4:36 AM Dec 10th from web

# It's Day 3 of our maintenance effort. Yeah, it's serious to be offline for 3 days, and that fact is not lost on us. We're working on it! Thx about 9 hours ago from web
 
Yeah, I got it too.

AAAAGH!!!

So incredibly PO'd right now!

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It's scary how vulnerable we are these days. Everything is done online, shopping, banking, etc; yet, networks are completely exposed.

I know some people who hack just for the fun. They don't do any damage. They just do it to see if they can get in places. It's remarkable how easy it is for them most times.

What's also scary is how easy it is to find information online about people, especially contact information :hmm: :hiding: