[AT] New Harbor Freight website it has a major security hole.

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Sat May 1 05:32:44 PDT 2010


Steve W. wrote:
> Alan Riley wrote:
>   
>> I ordered a steady rest for a lathe using their website on the 26th without
>> any apparent problems.  Of course I have already received a postcard
>> in the mail saying the item is on backorder.  Maybe in about 6 months
>> I'll receive the item. :>(
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>     
>
> The thing is Alan that what I was seeing would have been ALL of your
> info. As in credit card numbers, mailing and shipping addresses, current
> and past orders and anything else that you or they had placed in the
> account file.
>
> So if I had been dishonest I could easily grab the above info and start
> spending your money.
>
> Oh and FYI if you ordered prior to the 29th the tracking information and
> ordering info is probably wrong. Seems like they found more than a
> couple problems from what the person I spoke with today was telling me.
>
>
>
>   
Their site is down for maintenance now, maybe they are repairing the 
problem.
Cecil in OKla



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