Twinspires hacked

[art vanderlay]

I received a letter today that my account at Twinspires had been hacked. Although they did not describe it that way the letter said that there had been an intrusion, I guess that sounds better.
Anyone else affected?
I had not heard about this as I haven't been using Twinspires since I moved to Keeneland Select.

[PatCummings]

Story was released on Monday.

http://www.indystar.com/article/B2/2...sey=nav%7Chead

[art vanderlay]

I read your article which pretty much rehashes what i was sent in the mail,

I guess I will have to hope that no hacker can get through the high level of security to get my Social #


From the article,,,,,,,,, The only information compromised in the Aug. 3 incident were account holders’ names, birth date, e-mail address used to set up the account and a “cryptographically hashed Social Security number,” which Norris said would require a hacker to know the code before being able to convert it.

[JBJake]

FYI...They are giving you a free year of credit monitoring. The code was provided on the back of the letter they sent you. Need to go to the website and sign up.

[art vanderlay]

Originally Posted by JBJake

FYI...They are giving you a free year of credit monitoring. The code was provided on the back of the letter they sent you. Need to go to the website and sign up.

Lucky me, I would have preferred they had invested some money and secured the website.

[Bigsmc]

I got my letter today, it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Letter looks bogus to me. Why did it come out of some place in MN?

I already have Lifelock; threw the letter in the garbage.

If a company is offering a credit monitoring service for free for a year, tells me they have no confidence in thier system and will most likely get hacked again.

[DRJTSLADEjtsgus]

got off the phone with experian.signed up for there credit watch.twinspire should make a statement of how there are going to protect our account information.i don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling with this.:

[Danzig]

i use a moneypak card to load money into my account. should i still be concerned?


and for those who don't know, to truly get your free credit reports each year, go to annual credit report .com, not free credit etc. been going to that site for years now just to keep tabs on everything, and give that info out all the time to folks.

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i use a moneypak card to load money into my account. should i still be concerned?


and for those who don't know, to truly get your free credit reports each year, go to annual credit report .com, not free credit etc. been going to that site for years now just to keep tabs on everything, and give that info out all the time to folks.

Its not your credit card, or money card thats the issue, its the SSN which could be sold to anyone to do a bunch of fun things.

[wild barry]

I received my letter today (9-8). This is discouragingto say the least. To add insult to my twinspires account, I took part in the twinspires beat the champ contest and when the final results were first posted I finished in the money.Two days later they claimed the scores of eight people were omitted. They recalcuted the standings I finished out of the money. I like the layout of twinpires and the free brisnet past performances but it might be time to move elsewhere.

[art vanderlay]

Originally Posted by wild barry

I received my letter today (9-8). This is discouragingto say the least. To add insult to my twinspires account, I took part in the twinspires beat the champ contest and when the final results were first posted I finished in the money.Two days later they claimed the scores of eight people were omitted. They recalcuted the standings I finished out of the money. I like the layout of twinpires and the free brisnet past performances but it might be time to move elsewhere.

I agree with liking the layout and the brisnet pps. I moved to Keeneland Select same website as Twinspires but I prefer the Keeneland organization to Churchill.

[art vanderlay]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

Its not your credit card, or money card thats the issue, its the SSN which could be sold to anyone to do a bunch of fun things.

How about EZ money for deposits and withdrawals. I liked the simplicity of it but now I question the security.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

Its not your credit card, or money card thats the issue, its the SSN which could be sold to anyone to do a bunch of fun things.

yeah, was trying to remember what info i had to give to set up the thing, so that's why i was asking. not good.

[mclem0822]

Got my letter yesterday, going to sign up for the protection but the SSN part is a major concern!

[art vanderlay]

Originally Posted by mclem0822

Got my letter yesterday, going to sign up for the protection but the SSN part is a major concern!

Boy for a small subset we seem to have lots of company!!

[South Beach Luv]

Originally Posted by art vanderlay

Boy for a small subset we seem to have lots of company!!

Add another one, got mine today, that 20% is horseshit.

[Thoroughbred Fan]

If the SSNs were hashed....nothing to worry about. If they are lying about that, then your SSN will get used by criminals.

[art vanderlay]

Originally Posted by South Beach Luv

Add another one, got mine today, that 20% is horseshit.

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