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School and eBay
My university made the local news. As of this moment, we have a *really* good shot in making national - and not, sadly, for a good reason.
Oh no, my university had to send a CAMPUS WIDE email alert yesterday. A friendly, worrisome notice letting every employee and student of the large campus know that their ID server, as well as the other servers on campus, were HACKED. The ID server, which holds everything from our University-specialized ID numbers to addresses, photographs and phone numbers, and let's not forget our SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS was hacked.
For a period of a considerable time, according to the LSS and campus email. The hack was detected by an LSS employee who saw enormous unathorized transactions being requested by ID server, but it was only detected yesterday. The way they phrased the email, it's been compromised and hacked for a period of *days* not mere hours. So instead of doing what I needed to yesterday, I was calling up creditors and placing fraud alerts on myself. I have to call tomorrow and get my credit card offices.
The server reputedly also contained the information of on-line payments. Do you know how *good* I feel telling my family point-blank that I would never put that information in the hands of my university and we'll pay any other way we have to? It's saved me the possibility of my *parents* needing to take the same steps I have.
Oh, and eBay. I've been in communications with one seller who I sent payment to more than a week ago. About a week and a half. I told them as soon as I mailed payment. I get an email from them last week that they hadn't recieved it yet but if negative feedback gets left for me and they get it, they'll contact eBay. So I say that if they still don't have payment by this week, I will fax or bloody scan and email the *receipt* *of* *payment* and we can work from a understanding that I did in fact mail it out.
So, I go to eBay today and..."Seller Imporserium has filled a non-paying bidder status on you. You have seven days to resolve this before negative strikes are left on your account."
What. The. Fuck?
They replied to my email saying they would hold off and let me scan and we could go from there. I'm ROYALLY pissed about this as last night I emailed them checking to ask *very* nicely if they'd gotten the payment yet. Instead of a reply to *me* they started filing with eBay.
See Jate. See a pissed off Jate. See a pissed off Jate grab her fucking Pimp Cane and locate the seller. See seller meet the hidden sword inside of the Pimp Cane.
EDIT: Now they're all lovey-dovey in their replies, and promptly closed the discussion thread off. They had originally claimed I refused to pay (bull-fucking-shit) when they filed with eBay and now that they recieved payment, they're fucking smiley faces. =.= I emitted a long string of explatives that I won't repeat for fear of blistering paint.
Oh no, my university had to send a CAMPUS WIDE email alert yesterday. A friendly, worrisome notice letting every employee and student of the large campus know that their ID server, as well as the other servers on campus, were HACKED. The ID server, which holds everything from our University-specialized ID numbers to addresses, photographs and phone numbers, and let's not forget our SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS was hacked.
For a period of a considerable time, according to the LSS and campus email. The hack was detected by an LSS employee who saw enormous unathorized transactions being requested by ID server, but it was only detected yesterday. The way they phrased the email, it's been compromised and hacked for a period of *days* not mere hours. So instead of doing what I needed to yesterday, I was calling up creditors and placing fraud alerts on myself. I have to call tomorrow and get my credit card offices.
The server reputedly also contained the information of on-line payments. Do you know how *good* I feel telling my family point-blank that I would never put that information in the hands of my university and we'll pay any other way we have to? It's saved me the possibility of my *parents* needing to take the same steps I have.
Oh, and eBay. I've been in communications with one seller who I sent payment to more than a week ago. About a week and a half. I told them as soon as I mailed payment. I get an email from them last week that they hadn't recieved it yet but if negative feedback gets left for me and they get it, they'll contact eBay. So I say that if they still don't have payment by this week, I will fax or bloody scan and email the *receipt* *of* *payment* and we can work from a understanding that I did in fact mail it out.
So, I go to eBay today and..."Seller Imporserium has filled a non-paying bidder status on you. You have seven days to resolve this before negative strikes are left on your account."
What. The. Fuck?
They replied to my email saying they would hold off and let me scan and we could go from there. I'm ROYALLY pissed about this as last night I emailed them checking to ask *very* nicely if they'd gotten the payment yet. Instead of a reply to *me* they started filing with eBay.
See Jate. See a pissed off Jate. See a pissed off Jate grab her fucking Pimp Cane and locate the seller. See seller meet the hidden sword inside of the Pimp Cane.
EDIT: Now they're all lovey-dovey in their replies, and promptly closed the discussion thread off. They had originally claimed I refused to pay (bull-fucking-shit) when they filed with eBay and now that they recieved payment, they're fucking smiley faces. =.= I emitted a long string of explatives that I won't repeat for fear of blistering paint.