As you may have heard over the past few days, a security vulnerability known as "Heartbleed" was discovered in a software package called OpenSSL. This software is used by over two thirds of the internet to secure communications between your computer and the servers hosting the websites you visit online such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
It's important to us that our customers feel safe and secure while using our service. As such we want to assure you that we took immediate action and updated our systems to protect against the vulnerability once we learned about it on Monday April 7th.
We wanted to let you know of this bug so that you are well-informed. As a secure firm that holds financial assets on customers' behalf, we believe that any company which works with such information, especially financial information, should be safeguarding its users through an update like this.
While we have no evidence of any type of intrusion, as a measure of extra caution, we recommend that you change your Patch of Land password next time you login at https://patchofland.com/customer/account/.
