The Great Knit Picks Fiasco
As most of the knitting world knows by now, if you have purchased anything from Knit Picks in the past few years, your credit card might have been swiped and been receiving fraudulent charges in the past couple months (this in spite of the fact that their web checkout SPECIFICALLY says they don't store your credit card information). They weren't actually hacked--it sounds like the server was sort of unsecured. Now, if you are aware of this, you didn't hear it from Knit Picks themselves. Nope. You would have found out from someone else, most likely Ravelry. That is because vigilant knitters finally found a security breach announcement on the California Attorney General's office, here: https://www.privacyrights.org/node/55899 The California notice says that the breach was made public on February 11. It was cross-posted to a group I'm in on Ravelry on February 15. Knit Picks customers were notified by email or mail...........NEVER. In spite...