Did you know that May is Strong Password Month? OK, that probably isn’t true…but maybe it should be. It makes for a geart excuse to remind every member of the Second Life & VSTex family to think about our password choices.

Is your password easy to guess — like your name? Is it a common dictionary word, perhaps ‘cat’? Maybe it’s time to choose something a little more secure. Add a number, at least.

Beyond that, have you ever shared your password? I know that the person with whom you shared is totally your best friend forever, but since when has forever really meant forever?

Anyway…Strong Password Month is a great opportunity to take a moment to change your password to something way cooler and totally more secure. Celebrate today!

With that said back in March one of VHI top 10 shareholders, SL account got hacked. When the hacker got into this account they were able to sell off all the shares of VHI, over 3000 shares. This hacker then withdrew the money from the VSTex atm and put it into SLExchange ATM sold the L$ on the SLEX exchange and transfer the money to their paypal.com account.

So over the last 2 months, we have been working with this person to help them try to get their L$ back and get all the info the could on this hacker. VSTex and Samantha Goldflake has help all they could with getting IP address from when this person logged into the website, Linden Lab has been working on this to disable the IP address of the person who logged into this persons account. Unfortunately SLexchange.com would not give anyinfo on the paypal account where the USD from the sale of the L$ went to. This would of made it alot easier to find this hacker. Linden Lab has given him the L$ back but if you remember the share price dropped to 6.75 because 3000 shares got dumped. There is no way that he would be able to purchase 3000 shares for the 30KL$.

Now the VHI Board has been talking about this over the last month and we have all decided to give 500 shares of each of our owner shares and give them to this person. Now these shares will be locked shares, so they can not be sold, since they are not being purchased. But the point is for him to get his monthly dividends. Starting in June we will be taking 400 shares back each month over a 5 month period. 

So now everyone is going to make sure there passwords are secure, use numbers and letters, the more you use the more secure your password is. 

Bart Heart CEO
Valentine Heart inc.

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