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Gong Xi Fa Cai (恭禧發財)

Saku — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:42:56 +0000

Happy Chinese New Year everyone ^^. I hope you all have a blessed year in this year of Rabbit and get to spend some quality with your families and friends. And also, I hope you get all of red pockets since I haven’t gotten any since I moved to Canada ^^;; 11 years ago.

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Security Breach at Hobby Search

Saku — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:47:57 +0000

A hacker or hackers had attacked Hobby Search server early this month and as many as 23,526 credit cards information have been compromised for orders prior to July 7. They switched to a more secure transaction that only allows them to store the last four digits of a credit card number after July 7. Even though they don’t store personal identification number or security on the back of your credit card, the damage has been done and malicious acts on your credit card may occur.

Timeline of events as below (directly quoted from Hobby Search):

October 6 – A system administrator found traces of attacks from Korea and began investigating immediately. That night, we contacted an external security firm to investigate.

October 7 – The external examiners began investigations in the morning. We shut off our systems for emergency maintenance, reinstalled all server operating systems and software, re-examined security settings, and isolated the server.
Logs indicated that customer data had been sent out from our server to the address of an institution in Korea.
We contacted that institution by phone and email about this incident and confirmed that the data had been deleted. We believe that they were used as a proxy.

October 8 – We revised program, network, firewall, and client machine security and implemented an intrusion detection system.

October 12 – We contacted the credit card transaction handler and began discussions about the course of action.

October 20 – The external investigators concluded their investigations and determined which and how much data had been accessed.

October 28 – With the results of the investigation and cooperation of credit card companies, we are ready to handle customer correspondence and have sent out email notifications to the customers that may have been affected.

Further information can be found on Q&A page.

If you purchased items from Hobby Search prior to July 7, please check your credit card statement to ensure that there is no suspicious charges. If you do find suspicious charges, contact your credit card company as soon as possible.

Because of this incident, Hobby Search is no longer accepting credit card and it’s been suspended indefinitely, thus, I believe the only available option is PayPal. Now, the question is will you still buy from Hobby Search ? For me, I completely lost my trust in the company because I expected that something like this should never happen in the first place. I am going to cancel all my preorders with Hobby Search and going with HLJ or Amy Amy. It may sound harsh but it’s for the best.

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So tired~

Saku — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:29:25 +0000

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Hi everyone,

I just got back from Anime North 2009 and I am so dead tired. I was hoping to post event coverage tonight but I don’t have the energy to get up from my bed ^^;;. This year AN, I found a lot more great cosplayers in comparison from previous year so overall I enjoyed every little bits and pieces AN 2009. Expect full coverage sometimes this week ^^.

Kawaii Aisukuri-mu

Saku — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:59 +0000

I hope I said it right in the title. If not, please do let me know ^^. Anyways, I got a chain email that caught my interest surprisingly (which is like 1 in every 1723981732189 spam emails). I know I like ice cream but I don’t think I can eat these ice creams as they are just too adorable. Any cat lovers out there will surely enjoy this post ^^. More pictures after the cut.

My favourite is probably #1 ^^

恭喜發財 (Gong Xi Fa Cai)

Saku — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:41:11 +0000

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Happy Chinese New Year everyone especially those who celebrates it ^^. Welcome to the year of Ox and congratulations and be prosperous. Unfortunately, no Hong Bao (red pocket) for me this year either so it has been going on for the last 8 years or since I moved to Canada ^^;;.

In addition, it’s pretty boring one this year since one of my roommate went back home with my other friend so nothing is really happening ^^;;; we usually go out for dinner but this year , I just stayed at home and chill

I hope you guys enjoy your Chinese New year ^^ and how do you celebrate your Chinese New Year ?