Hannant's got hacked!

[Mossie]

....and a Policeman's truncheon is used for aprehending criminals!!!

Boom boom!

[Radish]

Ha!!

[Weaver]

Latest from Hannants:

Dear Customer,

Two of the investigations into our problem and have come back but failed to find anything significant.

We have analysed a lot (but not all yet) of the information our customers have sent us. We can confidently say that no information was captured as orders were transmitted. This means that we should be able to re-open the website quite quickly.  

However it does mean that we still do not know how the data was accessed and so have to recommend that anyone who registered their card details on the NEW website CANCEL the card with their bank. We realise this is annoying, irritating, time consuming and inconvenient but we think it is the safest thing to do under these circumstances.


PLEASE CANCEL ANY CREDIT OR DEBIT CARD THAT WAS REGISTERED ON OUR NEW WEBSITE. (registered on or after March 23rd 2010)

We will re-open as soon as possible with a new system that does not remember the card details. This will be annoying for our customers who order regularly and will not want to enter their card details each time but we think it is the best way to go at the moment.

This will mean that we will not be able to automatically send any back orders. We will NOT be cancelling any back orders and will send you all revised Back Order details as soon as we have decided on the best way to handle them. For the moment you can add any available items to your cart and then phone or fax your card details through. Then we can download the order from your cart and attach the card details. We will charge and despatch as soon as we can.


TELFORD SHOW ORDERS. To send us an order for collection at the show please add a Collect from show address with your name on as usual. Add what you want to buy to your cart as before BUT then email us to say it is there in your cart. We will then download it and have it ready for collection and payment at the show. You do not pay until you collect so we do not need any payment now. The country in the delivery address should be Collect from show NOT United Kingdom or any other country.

MAILORDERS. WE CAN NOW ACCEPT ORDERS THIS WAY. BUT ONLY THIS WAY PLEASE. Please put your order in the cart as normal then TELEPHONE or FAX us with your card details. We will then download your order and attach the card details to the order. We will then be able to process your order. Our email is not secure so we cannot recommend you send your card details that way though we know a lot of you will.

PLEASE DO NOT PHONE OR FAX OR POST YOUR ORDERS TO US AT THE MOMENT. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR FOR YOUR ORDERS BUT CANNOT LOAD THEM TO THE WEBSITE AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN.

We are sending this email via 2 methods so as to try and get it delivered. We apologise if you receive it twice.

We are still receiving immense amounts of support and help and we thank you all for it.

Best regards

Hannants.

Bummer.

[Roger the Cabin Boy]

Best deal with it right now, to make sure you get a shiny new card - just in time for Telford. 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Cancelled my (only) debit card the following morning, new one on the way to me now - Safe, but it means I cannot get at my bank account, nor buy anything whatsoever until the new one arrives !!

Ian

[Roger the Cabin Boy]

My good mate Vinnie from Loan Sharks Early Payday Ltd tells me he will have a stand in Hall 2, providing a valued service to newly cashless modellers. 

Only 3500% APR. 

Bring all your old silver and gold, for conversion to resin.

[PR19_Kit]

Cancelled my (only) debit card the following morning, new one on the way to me now - Safe, but it means I cannot get at my bank account, nor buy anything whatsoever until the new one arrives !!

A long time ago I had the same problem, and ever since then have two accounts, each with its own card. Saves tons of aggravation in these sorts of situations, specially when you can switch funds from one account to the other with on-line banking in times of crisis.

Of course SOME would say that I have two cards to hide some transactions from Mrs PR19, but that's not the case.

[Green Dragon]

Do these crooks ever put money into your account coz when I cancelled my card my ballance was ten quid more than it should be?!?

Paul Harrison

[Kerrillc]

My card provider just contacted me and now a new card is on order. But why North Las Vegas and a bit on the cheap side only £1.76, probably just testing! Rotten bar****!!!

cheers

K

[kitnut617]

My brother found an odd C$1 charge on his card too, he told me that when I had called him to tell him about Hannants and he said they had already contacted him about it (he'd bought some stuff in the last two weeks).  He has a new card coming ---

Fortunately for myself, I've been restraining myself from buying kits for the last 18 months (broke down a couple of times though but bought through the LMS) and had cancelled all my backorders from Hannants a long time ago and had not bothered to register with the new website until things get back to normal around here.

[JayBee]

Well I have just had my credit card company on the phone, those offspring of unmarried parents got me as well.

In the words of Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow 1525 :-

"I curse their head and all the hairs of their head; I curse their face, their brain (innermost thoughts), their mouth, their nose, their tongue, their teeth, their forehead, their shoulders, their breast, their heart, their stomach, their back, their womb, their arms, their leggs, their hands, their feet, and every part of their body, from the top of their head to the soles of their feet, before and behind, within and without."

"I curse them going and I curse them riding; I curse them standing and I curse them sitting; I curse them eating and I curse them drinking; I curse them rising, and I curse them lying; I curse them at home, I curse them away from home; I curse them within the house, I curse them outside of the house; I curse their wives, their children, and their servants who participate in their deeds. I (bring ill wishes upon) their crops, their cattle, their wool, their sheep, their horses, their swine, their geese, their hens, and all their livestock. I (bring ill wishes upon) their halls, their chambers, their kitchens, their stanchions, their barns, their cowsheds, their barnyards, their cabbage patches, their plows, their harrows, and the goods and houses that are necessary for their sustenance and welfare."

"May all the malevolent wishes and curses ever known, since the beginning of the world, to this hour, light on them. May the malediction of God, that fell upon Lucifer and all his fellows, that cast them from the high Heaven to the deep hell, light upon them."

"May the fire and the sword that stopped Adam from the gates of Paradise, stop them from the glory of Heaven, until they forebear, and make amends."

"May the evil that fell upon cursed Cain, when he slew his brother Abel, needlessly, fall on them for the needless slaughter that they commit daily."

"May the malediction that fell upon all the world, man and beast, and all that ever took life, when all were drowned by the flood of Noah, except Noah and his ark, fall upon them and drown them, man and beast, and make this realm free of them, for their wicked sins."

"May the thunder and lightning which rained down upon Sodom and Gomorra and all the lands surrounding them, and burned them for their vile sins, rain down upon them and burn them for their open sins. May the evil and confusion that fell on the Gigantis for their opression and pride in building the Tower of Babylon, confound them and all their works, for their open callous disregard and opression."

"May all the plagues that fell upon Pharoah and his people of Egypt, their lands, crops and cattle, fall upon them, their equipment, their places, their lands, their crops and livestock."

"May the waters of the Tweed and other waters which they use, drown them, as the Red Sea drowned King Pharoah and the people of Egypt, preserving God's people of Israel."

"May the earth open, split and cleave, and swallow them straight to hell, as it swallowed cursed Dathan and Abiron, who disobeyed Moses and the command of God."

"May the wild fire that reduced Thore and his followers to two-hundred-fifty in number, and others from 14,000 to 7,000 at anys, usurping against Moses and Aaron, servants of God, suddenly burn and consume them daily, for opposing the commands of God and Holy Church."

"May the malediction that suddenly fell upon fair Absolom, riding through the wood against his father, King David, when the branches of a tree knocked him from his horse and hanged him by the hair, fall upon these untrue Scotsmen and hang them the same way, that all the world may see."

"May the malediction that fell upon Nebuchadnezzar's lieutenant, Olifernus, making war and savagery upon true christian men; the malediction that fell upon Judas, Pilate, Herod, and the Jews that crucified Our Lord; and all the plagues and troubles that fell on the city of Jerusalem therefore, and upon Simon Magus for his treachery, bloody Nero, Ditius Magcensius, Olibrius, Julianus Apostita and the rest of the cruel tyrants who slew and murdered Christ's holy servants, fall upon them for their cruel tyranny and murder of Christian people."

"And may all the vengeance that ever was taken since the world began, for open sins, and all the plagues and pestilence that ever fell on man or beast, fall on them for their openly evil ways, senseless slaughter and shedding of innocent blood."

"I sever and part them from the church of God, and deliver them immediately to the devil of hell, as the Apostle Paul delivered Corinth. I bar the entrance of all places they come to, for divine service and ministration of the sacraments of holy church, except the sacrament of infant baptism, only; and I forbid all churchmen to hear their confession or to absolve them of their sins, until they are first humbled / subjugated by this curse."


"I forbid all christian men or women to have any company with them, eating, drinking, speaking, praying, lying, going, standing, or in any other deed-doing, under the pain of deadly sin."

"I discharge all bonds, acts, contracts, oaths, made to them by any persons, out of loyalty, kindness, or personal duty, so long as they sustain this cursing, by which no man will be bound to them, and this will be binding on all men."

"I take from them, and cast down all the good deeds that ever they did, or shall do, until they rise from this cursing."

"I declare them excluded from all matins, masses, evening prayers, funerals or other prayers, on book or bead (rosary); of all pigrimages and alms deeds done, or to be done in holy church or be christian people, while this curse is in effect."

"And, finally, I condemn them perpetually to the deep pit of hell, there to remain with Lucifer and all his fellows, and their bodies to the gallows of Burrow moor, first to be hanged, then ripped and torn by dogs, swine, and other wild beasts, abominable to all the world. And their candle (light of their life) goes from your sight, as may their souls go from the face of God, and their good reputation from the world, until they forebear their open sins, aforesaid, and rise from this terrible cursing and make satisfaction and penance."




I think that sums it up.

JimB

[Geoff]

I sense a degree of irritation there Jim.

[PR19_Kit]

Is that Hannants, the credit card company or the thieving gits who had away with your card data that are earning your wrath Jim?

Or possibly all three of them?

[JayBee]

No, No, NO, I have no concerns with Hannants, or the credit card company, both of whome have acted as they should.

The others are less than contemptible. They are less than scum. They do not warrant the contempt of the rest of humanity. They are less than bacteria. They would almost be a waste of bullets. Bring on ray guns (death rays) but that would be far too quick! Let them rot in a He11 of there own making, preferably one that is so severe that they will never have a credit rating again.

For the moment I have run out of breath.

JimB

[Mossie]

That truncheon would be handy, good for stunning....