Zappos.com Customer Database Hacked, Change Your Password!

Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers.

Zappos.com, is a huge online retailer the specializes in shoes, clothing, handbags and more. And they are facing a public relations nightmare and had to send out millions of emails to ask customers to reset their passwords or set up new ones after hackers mave have compromised their internal database.Think about that, 24 million users may have had their info stolen!

According to 9News and to Zappos.com,  customers' actual credit card and payment information was not stolen. However, names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, the last four digits from credit cards and more may have been accessed by the cyber criminals. That information could be used to crack other passwords and personal accounts or be used in identity theft.

If you are a Zappos customer you go follow this link to change your password.

Some of the email sent to customers:

First, the bad news:

We are writing to let you know that there may have been illegal and unauthorized access to some of your customer account information on Zappos.com, including one or more of the following: your name, e-email address, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, the last four digits of your credit card number (the standard information you find on receipts), and/or your cryptographically scrambled password (but not your actual password).

THE BETTER NEWS:

The database that stores your critical credit card and other payment data was NOT affected or accessed.

Read the full email sent out by Zappos.com here.

Photo by Robert Scoble, Flickr.

[9News]

[Zappos]