{"id":23524,"date":"2021-07-14T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spreadshop.com\/blog\/?p=23524"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:13:15","slug":"it-security-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadshop.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/14\/it-security-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"IT-Security Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spread Group was the target of an organized cyber-attack which was carried out with considerably vicious criminal intent. You might\u2019ve read about it in our recent emails, press release or FAQ. For the sake of transparency and your accounts safety, we would like to recommend again that you change your account password and PayPal password. Of course, we don\u2019t have access to nor do we store any password information from accounts at PayPal. 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