I just got an e-mail (see below) from the CTO of on-line movie streaming service Vudu telling me that thieves broke into their Silicon Valley offices recently and made off with computer hard drives containing customer data. My immediate reaction was "yikes!" but then I read on. Unlike a lot of notices that I get on an all too regular basis from banks and retail outlets, this wasn't an impersonal message about an undisclosed "security event" that led to a compromise of customer data. I was … [Read more...]
