VUDU Burglarized: Customers Personal Info Stolen

If you are a member of the popular pay per movie site called VUDU, you will want to read this.

On Tuesday the company VUDU, acquired by WalMart in 2010, sent out a mass email to all it's members titled "Important Information Regarding Your VUDU Account." Seems their headquarter offices were broken into on March 24, 2013. Thieves got away with hard drives that contained personal information of customers such as:

• names
• email addresses
• dates of birth
• phone numbers
• mailing addresses
• account activity
• last 4 digits of credit card numbers
• encrypted passwords

Here's the first announcement VUDU put out about the incident, 12 days later on Facebook:

VUDU
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

"Our Chief Technology Officer, Prasanna Ganesan, is sending an email to our customers this afternoon about a break-in at the VUDU offices, but we wanted to share the information here proactively on Facebook. We want you to know that we are taking this issue very seriously, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you."
For more information, as well as FAQs visit us at http://www.vudu.com/passwordreset.

 

WalMart claims they have taken immediate action and reset every customers password. That will only help though, with future purchases. That will not help the fact that somewhere, sitting in the hands of a dirty thief lies all of our personal information and passwords. 

As an added security measure, WalMart has given each customer a one year free subscription to AllClear ID. It's formerly known as DEBIX. And it is a fraud detection company that helps monitor the future use of our identity info. 

 

O gee, thanks so much! Excuse me if I'm not jumping with joy but it's because of WalMarts ways of storing personal information all together, that has gotten us in this mess. I for one, am going to change each and every password and email I can before the day is out. I am also going to remove my credit card info from every site possible....Buying online, watching movies with a click and such is not all it's cracked up to be afterall. I just don't feel safe. 

 

For me, it's time to go back to basics! How about you?

 

 

How Much Does Your Turkey Weigh?

How Much Does Your Turkey Weigh?

Well, after days of saying I was not gonna do it....I did! I went ahead and purchased everything needed to make a Thanksgiving feast. Not sure when I'll cook it though, maybe this week, lol.

I ended shopping at the Super Walmart and up buying a Honey Suckle White hen turkey that weighed 11.93 pounds. It cost $.78 per pound, totally it out to $9.31. It has the pop up timer also, so I guess that was a good deal. I dunno really, cause the crowd was so huge, I didn't have time to really compare prices. Mostly what I went on was that the Honey Suckle White brand was the only ones that were not frozen. So being since this was my last minute decision, that was great!

After picking out the turkey, I then had to wander all the aisles looking for sides. It turned out to be a two hour affair. But I am sure we will enjoy it whenever I get time to cook and for him [my husband] to be home.

Since we all here at Gather are dots on the map everywhere, I thought this would be fun. Let's do a comparison of turkey sizes and prices in our locations. Just to see if there are major or minor differences.

How much does your turkey weigh this year?

Mine is 11.93 punds @ $0.78/per pound = Total Price $9.31

How Much Does Your Turkey Weigh?

Well, after days of saying I was not gonna do it....I did! I went ahead and purchased everything needed to make a Thanksgiving feast. And it was a last minute decision.

I was out shopping tonight for a new outfit for dinner with my husbands' family tomorrow. When he said that turkeys were everywhere on sale. I then asked him if that meant he was hinting for me to cook one. And replied with, "O no, not unless you want to."

Then I was like, "okay, lets go get some things and I'll cook dinner." Because I could tell he really wanted a dinner at home also. He always has dinner at his mom's house around 3pm. But he does like leftover alot!

So anyways, we make our own paths through the overly crowded aisles of the food center in WalMart. I ended up buying a Honey Suckle White hen turkey that weighed 11.93 pounds. It cost $.78 per pound, totally it out to $9.31. It has the pop up timer also, so I guess that was a good deal. I dunno really, cause the crowd was so huge, I didn't have time to really compare prices. Mostly what I went on was that the Honey Suckle White brand was the only ones that were not frozen. So being since this was my last minute decision, that was great!

After picking out the turkey, I then had to wander all the aisles looking for sides. It turned out to be a two hour affair. But I am sure we will enjoy it tomorrow! Whatever time I get around to it.

Since we all here at Gather are dots on the map everywhere, I thought this would be fun. Let's do a comparison of turkey sizes and prices in our locations. Just to see if there are major or minor differences.

How much does your turkey weigh this year?

Mine is 11.93 punds @ $0.78/per pound = Total Price $9.31

Have You Ever Tried...

Krunchers! Mesquite Bar-B-Que Chips?

I grabbed a bag to snack on at the register of Walmart the other night.

Bag says "As Always 30% Less Fat than regular potatoe chips" so that got my attention. They were $3.79 for a 9.6oz bag.

And well, I hate them!

As soon as I opened them, I got the smell of a weird smell that I cannot explain. I thought it was just another mesquite batch of flavoring.

Well, I grabbed one, and realized it was the same taste as the smell. I believe it is something to do with the white linning inside the bag. Kinda a plasticy smell & taste.

I'll never buy them again. And I do love Mesquite flavors, just not these Krunchers!