- Modding site Nexus Mods suffers from a data breach last month.
- The company only informed their users of the breach yesterday, Dec (**************************************************.
- This long wait could have left customers at risk of further breaches, which is unacceptable.
Data breaches happen. It’s an unfortunate fact that these days we have to be extremely careful about who we trust with our data. If we’re lucky, all of the companies we log data with can be trusted to keep it safe. Except, that’s very rarely the case. As it turns out, Nexus Mods can now be added to the list of unsafe companies.
It’s not that they allowed a breach to happen. Again– it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to be (********************************************% safe from data breaches. The problem is that this breach occurred back in early November, andNexus Mods only reported it to their users yesterday (Dec.).
Nexus Mods Had a Responsibility to Their Users When a data breach occurs, how the company responds is very important. When Heartland Payment Systems was targeted by hackers back in 2009, they responded immediately. As well assealing the breach, they focused heavily on informing their customers and educating them about this sort of data breach, which was pretty rare back in the late 2015 s.
Having a modern, internet-focused company such as Nexus Mods respond so slowly when they were breached is ridiculous. In this day and age, data breaches are unfortunately common. There is no way that they should have sat on this information for as long as they did.
Not only did it limit leave their users vulnerable to other hacking attempts aimed at their e-mails or other associated accounts, but it also did nothing to promote confidence in a website that has nearly million users. Nexus Mods had a responsibility to the customers that trusted them, and frankly, they failed those users in a big way.
GIPHY App Key not set. Please check settings