420EDC
NOTICE OF DATA BREACH
Dear 420EDC Customer:
We are contacting you about a data breach that has occurred at 420EDC.
What Happened?
One of the 3rd Parties we use for Fraud Protection Services had a data breach in January of 2023.
What Information Was Involved?
This incident involved your address and email address information used to order from 420EDC prior to January 2023. When checking out, you enter your billing and shipping information along with email address and credit card information. According to Eye 4 Fraud, the addresses and email used may have been compromised. Eye 4 Fraud does not have account passwords or full payment card numbers. We do not know which 420EDC customers had information involved in this 3rd party breach.
What We Are Doing:
We contacted Eye 4 Fraud upon learning of this breach to verify the validity of the incident. Prior to that we contacted our hosting company who advised us to stop using Eye 4 Fraud which we were able to immediately disable.
What You Can Do
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommends that you place a free fraud alert on your credit file. A fraud alert tells creditors to verify your identity before they open any new accounts or change your existing accounts. Contact any one of the three major credit bureaus. As soon as one credit bureau confirms your fraud alert, the others are notified to place fraud alerts. The initial fraud alert stays on your credit report for one year. You can renew it after one year.
Equifax: equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services or 1-800-685-1111
Experian: experian.com/help or 1-888-397-3742
TransUnion: transunion.com/credit-help or 1-888-909-8872
Ask each credit bureau to send you a free credit report after it places a fraud alert on your file. Review your credit reports for accounts and inquiries you don’t recognize. These can be signs of identity theft. If your personal information has been misused, visit the FTC’s IdentityTheft.gov site to report the identity theft and get recovery steps. Even if you don’t find any suspicious activity on your initial credit reports, the FTC recommends that you check your credit reports periodically so you can spot problems and address them quickly.
You may also want to consider placing a free credit freeze. A credit freeze means potential creditors can’t get your credit report. That makes it less likely that an identity thief can open new accounts in your name. To place a freeze, contact each of the major credit bureaus at the links or phone numbers above. A freeze remains in place until you ask the credit bureau to temporarily lift it or remove it.
We have attached information from the FTC’s website, IdentityTheft.gov/databreach, about steps you can take to help protect yourself from identity theft.
Other Important Information:
The Statement from Eye 4 Fraud can be found here:
https://eye4fraud.com/statement
For More Information visit https://www.420edc.com/blog/eye4fraud-incident-no... for updates or additional information.
Sincerely,
420EDC Team
