Amarillo Banks Suggest Account Holders To Change Passwords Due To “Heartbleed”
You might have heard about Heartbleed, or maybe you haven't. Either way, it's having an impact on a local basis in Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. Amarillo banks, including Happy State Bank, encourage all account holders to change their passwords for online banking, email accounts and all social media accounts. Luckily, an easy to use Heartbleed test website has been created on Filippo! You simply type in the website you're concerned about, and the website will test it for vulnerability to Heartbleed.
Happy State Bank sent this message with an urgent status, and this one is not to be ignored!
"Happy State Bank is deeply committed to protecting our customers’ information. A computer flaw called “Heartbleed” has been reported to cause problems in secure sites making sensitive information vulnerable. Happy State Bank has taken measures to ensure customer information is protected from this vulnerability. To be safe, we encourage our customers to change their online passwords. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at (806) 358-5100 or (800) 477-2265. Thank you for putting your trust in Happy State Bank."
Protect yourself, and your money! Take a few minutes out of your day and change all your passwords on your online bank accounts, any website you do online bill payments, your email account(s), and any social media account you have!
According to some sources, this is only the beginning of our problems caused by Heartbleed. Stating that the "fix" is going to "slow the Internet to a crawl".
"Efforts to fix the notorious Heartbleed bug threaten to cause major disruptions to the Internet over the next several weeks as companies scramble to repair encryption systems on hundreds of thousands of Web sites at the same time, security experts say.
The sheer scale of the work required to fix this aspect of the bug — which makes it possible to steal the “security certificates” that verify that a Web site is authentic — could overwhelm the systems designed to keep the Internet trustworthy."
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