Oops, sorry - 14,000 e-mail accounts get deleted
Looks like Charter, a national cable and high-speed internet provider, decided to include more than just inactive accounts in its routine email account deletion. Although arguably not as bad as over-billing your customers a year in advance to the tune of $7.5 million, 14,000 users that had e-mail accounts with Charter found them to be completely emptied, including all the cute photos of the grandchildren and other attachments.Worse yet, it's gone for good. According to the AP, Charter says that none of it can be restored. To make amends, the company credited the bill of each user who's account was deleted with $50. Better than nothing, but still - the only excuse Charter could come up with for this error was that something like this had never happened before.
All told, the mistake cost them $700,000 - and a few customers, perhaps. It seems that irresponsible handling of customer data has virtually no repercussions beyond self-inflicted ones. Airlines lose luggage on occasion, but not a whole day's flights worth of luggage. But who's to blame? The users who failed to protect their own data or the company that failed to protect the user's data?
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
