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?