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Play.com this time, I just got an email from them saying they'd had a security breach and to be extra vigilant.
At least they had the decency to let me know...
Play.Com have not been breached, but their marketing company has. So the warning is about phishing emails not direct fraud attempts on your cards.
Dear Customer,Email Security Message
We are emailing all our customers to let you know that a company that handles part of our marketing communications has had a security breach. Unfortunately this has meant that some customer names and email addresses may have been compromised.
We take privacy and security very seriously and ensure all sensitive customer data is protected. Please be assured this issue has occurred outside of Play.com and no other personal customer information has been involved.
Please be assured we have taken every step to ensure this doesn’t happen again and accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused some of you.
Customer Advice
Please do be vigilant with your email and personal information when using the internet. At Play.com we will never ask you for information such as passwords, bank account details or credit card numbers. If you receive anything suspicious in your email, please do not click on any links and forward the email on to privacy@play.com for us to investigate.
Thank you for continuing to shop at Play.com and we look forward to serving you in the future.
Play.com Customer Service Team
Just had a look in my google-apps spam box and there's one in there to my play.com email address (I use unique addresses for all online registrations - helps track companies that sell my details etc and for blocking).
it includes two phish links for a dodgy download of a version of adobe acrobat.
more here
http://www.gsn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=891&p=13313