"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"
The issue isn't emissions, it's costs. Sadly we don't live in a dream world, and everything has a cost.
Even running excess production into hydrogen production has costs (transport, storage, infrastructure...).
The current (not taking in consideration the new tech currently in testing) beeing highly ineficient creates many cost issues.
Less effieicnt means that more power needs to be used to get that amount of hydrogen, reducing the gains on electricity surplus.
The storage beeing ineficient means a higher running cost, more space used, less of that space...
The transport beeing ineficient also increases the running costs, but also the emissions if the transport uses fossil fuel. Of it uses hydrogen, well it increases the running cost even more. That expensive produced hydrogen is used for transport...
The electricity production from hydrogen being ineficient increases the used hydrogen to get the same energy amount, which then increases the costs because more of that expensive hydrogen has to be used.
So taking all this into account, being "clean" doesn't necessarily make it is viable compared to other storage or energy production tech.
The costs have to be taken in account because resources don't appear magically.
Mining Uranium has a cost. Buying it from abroad has a cost, paying people to maintain all that has a cost...