We got hacked!

After having the online store up for 9 months with zero security issues today we found out some lowlife hacked us last week.

We had 2 sales where the payment was rerouted to his Paypal id, and not ours. I have contacted Paypal and a freeze has been placed upon his account and the funds are being returned to the 2 customers that were affected.

I have contacted one of the customers and explained the situation but the other customer did not sign up for a customer account at the website therefor we do not have his contact info.

So Michael S, if you are reading this please contact us so we can further explain matters.

Also by searching for the hackers emails online we found multiple other online stores hit by the same guy....so it was a widespread operation not directed solely at us. I'm hoping the authorities can track him down and throw his ass in jail.

In the meantime I have a webdesigner studying the code to see how he got in. The store will be down until this is determined.

Knives coming available soon will be sold through Ebay until the issue is resolved.

Thank you for your understanding,

-Jason

(PS to all previous customers, don't worry your financial info is stored at Paypal, NOT on our site, so the hacker had no access to it)

3-25-10 Quick Update

The supplies we were waiting on finally arrived so we are finishing up the batch we were working on.

Today I listed a dozen knives in our Ecos Knives website store..... Ecos Custom Knives , and 5 knives on Ebay..... Ecos Knives Ebay .

We are working on our next batch which will have some hamons, some Kiridashi, a Karamklaw or two, and maybe a Karambit, and hopefully a few more acid etched pieces if time permits.

Primarily our concern right now is to get these custom orders that we are overdue on finished up and in our customers hands.

Thank you,

-Jason

Knives available on Ebay

Just a quick message to let you know we listed a few discounted blades on Ebay today. Click here to see our offerings on Ebay

Our next batch is on schedule to be available sometime between March 20th and the first week of April. We are just waiting for a package of supplies to arrive to finish them up.

Just a quick look at some composite we are working on.

This is some composite we are working on to use on our own knives and eventually to resell to other knifemakers and gun smiths to use on their knives and pistol grips. You will be seeing it on our own work starting this month (we have been using our own composite for around 10yrs but the same resins and fabrics aren't available at our new location so we had to come up with some new blends) and sheets of it will be available for sale sometime in May.

The small pieces are just sample swatches made from scraps so we can get an idea how how the different colors look once sealed with resin. They have numerous flaws since we will not be using them.

The full sized sheets have no flaws and can be ground down to vary which color is the predominate color. For example with the green sheet you can have it mostly green with black highlights, or grind it down a tad and have it mostly black with green highlights (as you can see in one area towards the center).