I just got out of Jail less than 12 hours ago and have finally been updated fully on the status of the security breach that may have taken place, so before I go into anything else I would like to issuing this SECUITY WARNING.

During the warrentless raid by Hamilton Police they seized an Expresspost envelope from a customer that arrived just an hour before, as well as the Envelope I was going to send to them and the seeds for the package. As well, they have the cash register reciept for that day with the payment of those seeds as a sale in the till.

They also seized my online seed sales tracking book which had the last 5 days of orders that had not been shipped that was waiting on stock, in hard copy form, with information about the return address and the order. That information is always distroyed once an order is complete, ussually between 3-5 days from the time I recieve an order.

However dilligent we always were at keeping our customers information safe, there is always the chance that poce will obtain information during a raid that may be harmfull to customers privacy on that specific day, or within a short period of time prior to the raid.

Nothing else was comprimised in regrards to seed sales, and the police did take all those items without a warrant, However this is still very serious. I will also be issuing a release to warn each individual customer who may have any security worries.

I have yet to give my employees any instructions as how to handle this except to say that we are open as usual. I handled all online orders personally, and the announcment on www.upinsmokecafe.ca about "Don't Buy Seeds" was done without my instruction, but with the security of customers in mind, plus the fact that only I know the information nessesary to complete and pay for online orders, so sales were halted for the last 3 days by my employee.

I will be contacting everyone who has an order pending within the next couple hours and sending them a pre writen warning similar to this, with instruction on how best to handle it.

The last security breach was that they have a backup disk of my DMS Sales on my Computer for the last 18 months as we were wiping the computer clean a couple days prior. This information on the disc is encripted with a couple passwords, but this is also very serious. It doesn't harm any customers as no information other than the general sales could be found, but now they have my full sales history if they can access it.

Since online sales have been halted for the last 3 days now, there have not been any orders sent out. If you ordered from me and recieve anything without further instruction from me, I would be cautious to its authenticity.

Online sales will continue under a NEW policy soon, with a NEW Post Office Box and I will still handle online orders. If you have an order pending or in the mail and would like me to send you the order, let me know and I will be using NEW procedures to have it sent with much safer methods than before. I will also be sending customers a NEW return address that I will use so you will know it's from the Up In Smoke Cafe when it arrives. Otherwise you can cancel your order and I can send you a refund or not send anything at all or you can send me another address for a refund. Either way it's up to each customer, but with my complete assurance that whatever my customers decide I will be as carefull with all personal information as I always have been.

My Deepest Appologies to anyone else who may have been affected by his. I will do everything I can to make sure everyone is safe.

Regards

Chris Goodwin
Up In Smoke Cafe