Well.  This is an interesting situation.

I’ll preface the info below by saying that if you’ve ever purchased from the shop, your data is safe.

As it pertains to security issues in the IT community, there’s a thing called responsible disclosure and today it failed miserably thanks to a lack of communication.

Typically what happens is a software vulnerability is found, disclosed to the developer.  They fix it and release the update and after a couple of days, the vulnerability is shared with the public as a whole and hopefully by now, most people have already updated.  We all go on with our lives a little safer for this process.  This is supposed to allow things to get fixed before they’re exploited by “bad people”.

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