{"id":2802,"date":"2011-04-06T20:25:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T10:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2011-04-06T20:25:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T10:25:15","slug":"dell-email-database-breached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/04\/dell-email-database-breached\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Email Database Breached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening it was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/australian-it\/dell-australia-impacted-by-epsilon-email-breach\/story-e6frgakx-1226034878214\">reported that Australian customers of global computer manufacturer Dell<\/a>, may have been part of a security breach in which their name and email address have been exposed to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>I received the following email warning from Dell: <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Are you affected?  If you&#8217;ve ever done business with Dell which included the supply of your email address to them, you probably have been.  What can you do?<\/p>\n<p>Not much.<\/p>\n<p>In all likelihood the email addresses have found their way into the hands of spammers and criminal elements looking to perpetrate online scams &#8211; so be on the lookout for increased levels of spams looking to get you to click on things.  Don&#8217;t open emails from people you don&#8217;t know, or from organisations you don&#8217;t deal with.<\/p>\n<p>If you get something suspicious, report it at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acma.gov.au\/WEB\/STANDARD\/pc=PC_310369\">ACMA&#8217;s spam reporting site<\/a>, and try and help solve the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening it was reported that Australian customers of global computer manufacturer Dell, may have been part of a security breach in which their name and email address have been exposed to hackers. I received the following email warning from Dell: Are you affected? If you&#8217;ve ever done business with Dell which included the supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,437,475],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dell","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}