Social Network Emails – Your account may have been compromised – What to do.
Users are still concerned after receiving emails saying that their accounts might have been compromised or the one entitled - Important information regarding your security and privacy from social networking sites - Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. The problem arose when Zendesk who store and organise emails for customer support and help desks for these social networks had their systems hacked. Zendesk believe that during the security breach personal information such as email addresses linked to these platforms may have been downloaded by the hacker. Quote from the zendesk blog We believe that the hacker downloaded email addresses of users who contacted those three customers for support, as well as support email subject lines. We notified our affected customers immediately and are working with them to assist in their response. This will only affect you if you have emailed customer support at Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr - which most of us have at some point. I imagine if you have then that is why you have received an email warning you of the breach. - There is no indication that passwords have been stolen at all. So, I [...]
