You can also use a humidifying solution that not only resists mold, but helps to keep your cigars at optimum humidity. You can find it at most any cigar merchants under a variety of brands, but it's all basically a 50/50 propylene glycol/distilled water solution. I usually fill my humidifiers with that every third time I fill them. The other times it's distilled water only.
The article posted mentioned trying to salvage the moldy cigars. This probably won't work. It's best to just get rid of them.
HOWEVER, is the "mold" only on the cigars or the humidor as well. If the mold is white and easily brushed off the cigars it is not mold, but "bloom." This is actually desirable and indicates a properly aged cigar. Because you were using tap water, you most likely have mold. Just be sure that before you toss those cigars and use alcohol in your humidor that it's not bloom.
Good luck.
-Andrew
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