"We would like to inform you of a recent incident affecting the security of certain data hosted by one of our service providers.
What happened?
At the end of September, we were the victim of a social engineering attack targeting one of our employees. This highly sophisticated attack began on the Discord platform with the downloading of malware under cover of a game on the Steam platform, proposed by an acquaintance of our employee, himself a victim of the same attack.
Our security team took immediate action. Despite our actions, the attacker was able to exploit one of the stolen cookies to connect to the management interface of one of our SaaS providers. Thanks to this cookie, now deactivated, the attacker was able to extract, via our SaaS provider's API, certain private information about you.
The information concerned is your first and last name, e-mail address, date of birth, billing address and credit card expiry date. It is important to note that no passwords or sensitive banking data have been compromised.
What actions have we taken?
As soon as this incident was discovered, we took immediate steps to secure our systems and took all necessary precautions to avoid future incidents. We have also reinforced the security protocols we apply with all our SaaS providers. Finally, we will be upgrading our internal systems to render compromised workstations harmless.
What can you do?
In the wake of this incident, please be very vigilant about the emails you receive, as they could be phishing attempts. In general, for all your accounts, we advise you to protect yourself by setting up multi- factor authentication ("MFA").
To set up MFA on your Shadow account, please refer to the following
guide: https://shdw.me/HC-B2C-2FA
We are here for you
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and assure you that we are doing everything possible to ensure the security of your data.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our customer service department at https://shdw.me/HC- B2C-Support Form
Thank you for your understanding and trust.
Best regards,
Eric Sèle, CEO, Shadow"
Considering how much a 'top spec' PC costs (even to build DIY), let's take a lowball figure of $2000. 2000 / 50 = 40. So 40 months, or 3.3 year of $50 a month is the equivalent of a gaming PC.
I tend to upgrade every 3-4 years. Even at $50 a month this isn't necessarily bad value for money (imo). And especially for people who can't DIY faced with the cost of a custom-build machine.
Yeah, I don't disagree - though with a 3070, I wouldn't quite say their top spec is really top spec, but all in all its really not a bad deal at all.
And I have to say, being able to game from a super thin laptop with full graphics settings, and low power usage is awesome.
It's also really excellent if you're not sure you'll actually use a gaming pc much - better to sub for 3 months of shadow then cancel than buy a $2k gaming PC then have it sit idle after a few months
The way you describe it, it's genuinely tempting to me. Mainly I use my PC for making music, and a little animating / graphic design. I tried to avoid installing any games because they just all cumulatively seem to slow down the system with all the little installers / c++ redistributables they seems to need... but of course, not being made of stone I've installed many!
For my next machine... maybe I'll keep it pristine and use cloud for gaming.
Pretty sure it's no commitment, so go try it for a month, you do need a solid internet connection, but nothing insane