PSA: Play.com

The Northern Monkey

Just had this email:

Dear Customer,

Email Security Message

We are emailing all our customers to let you know that a company that handles part of our marketing communications has had a security breach. Unfortunately this has meant that some customer names and email addresses may have been compromised.

We take privacy and security very seriously and ensure all sensitive customer data is protected. Please be assured this issue has occurred outside of Play.com and no other personal customer information has been involved.

Please be assured we have taken every step to ensure this doesn’t happen again and accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused some of you.

Customer Advice

Please do be vigilant with your email and personal information when using the internet. At Play.com we will never ask you for information such as passwords, bank account details or credit card numbers. If you receive anything suspicious in your email, please do not click on any links and forward the email on to privacy@play.com for us to investigate.

Thank you for continuing to shop at Play.com and we look forward to serving you in the future.

Play.com Customer Service Team

Just be aware if you use play at all.

welshkev

hmmm, me to.

i'll have to keep an eye on that :?

broken weeble

Got the same one...Problems related to those suffered CRC by any chance?

toby_winkler

I also received the same e-mail yesterday, Only ever bought one thing from them and it was a while ago now. Fingers crossed this security breach doesn't cause any problems.

D-Cyph3r

At least it isn't as bad as in CRC's case where they are getting bank details. I got the same email and use Play a lot, but fortunately Gmail is pretty good at sorting spam from genuine email.