You’ve been told time and again to be careful about who you give your email address to, and to NOT give any personal information to businesses you don’t know or trust (ref: Spear Phishing with Unsecure Databases). But what about the BIG guys you do trust?
This Monday morning I awoke to dark skies, rain falling… the day wasn’t looking too good. My Blackberry woke up a few seconds after me, beeping with my special “urgent” email tone alert. It’s an email from Best Buy, adding joy to my wonderful Monday morning. While opening that email, I get another one from a financial institution I deal with. They both said the same thing:
“Recently, we were notified of a system breach at Epsilon, a third-party vendor that provides marketing services to a number of companies, including us. The information obtained was limited to customer name and email addresses of some credit card customers. No account information or other information was compromised.”
While checking on the Web for more details about the story, I sadly discover a third company I do business with, showing the same kind of warning on their website. Here’s a list of the affected sites I compiled from various articles I found on the web.
Read complete article:
http://www.emailsecuritymatters.com/site/blog/email-security/epsilon-security-breach-data-theft-major-spear-phishing-targets/
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