Honolulu
Well-Known Member
I just today received a letter from TradeMotion, a company that apparently operates the payment functions of various auto parts suppliers, stating they have been hacked and data lost. Natch, they aren't saying in the letter whose payment system was compromised, but an online search for "Trademotion BMW" turns them up quite frequently. The letter indicates that an unauthorized person breached the system five times between October 2017 and May 2018. Steps are being taken, etc.
TradeMotion offers a year-long free subscription to LifeLock. BUT... LifeLock itself was acquired a couple years ago by Symantec (big security outfit, Norton is one of their brands) and THEY were hacked not long ago as well.
Anyone using a site that subbed their online payment system to TradeMotion had probably ought to review their credit card statements, consider freezing their credit reporting, etc. Surely we have all heard this before.
To me, offering services of an already compromised company as partial compensation for a data compromise, is double.... something and not at all good.
YMMV
TradeMotion offers a year-long free subscription to LifeLock. BUT... LifeLock itself was acquired a couple years ago by Symantec (big security outfit, Norton is one of their brands) and THEY were hacked not long ago as well.
Anyone using a site that subbed their online payment system to TradeMotion had probably ought to review their credit card statements, consider freezing their credit reporting, etc. Surely we have all heard this before.
To me, offering services of an already compromised company as partial compensation for a data compromise, is double.... something and not at all good.
YMMV
