Some bad news for New York’s best big mouth, it appears that Wine Library, Gary Vaynerchuk’s online store, has been hacked. The site sent an email out to customers yesterday, as first reported by Alexia Tsotsis, which gave them a rundown on the timeline of the attacks.

When we began hearing from a few customers about possible fraudulent credit card charges in the middle of October, we launched an investigation.  At that time, we did not know a data breach had occurred.  However, as the number of these concerns increased in early November, we removed all credit card data from our site on November 11th since it became clearer that, although we couldn’t find a breach, something was going on.  Last week we confirmed that an IP address from China was used to hack our website and potentially compromised customer credit card information.  As far as we can tell, this did not affect any in store transactions.

The company makes it clear that this is the first time in its 15 years on the web that it has experienced something like this, and that it is taking big steps to ensure it never happens again. In fact, according to the email, the company will no longer store any customer credit card data. Read More