Epsilon gets hacked; umptyseven million email addresses copped.

I heard from Chase, Marriott, WorstBuy and a few of my CEO's sites this afternoon, all 'apologising'...

Can hardly wait for the 'personalized' email scams from my erstwhile legit guys.
GL, mD

Epsilon data breach results in a huge loss of customer data | VentureBeat

And, a few snippets from another report:

"Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp., sends more than 40 billion emails a year and has more than 2,500 business clients. Stock in the parent company fell $1.73, or 2 percent, to close Monday at $84.20."

"Financial institutions affected include Barclays Bank, Capital One Financial Corp., Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bancorp. The parent companies of Best Buy, Ethan Allen furniture stores, the Kroger grocery chain, the Home Shopping Network and Walgreens drugstores issued similar warnings, as did the Hilton and Marriott hotel chains. The College Board, the not-for-profit organization that runs the SATs, also warned that a hacker may have obtained student email addresses."

"Epsilon is a big moneymaker for Alliance Data Systems. Epsilon turned $65 million in operating profit last year, and its $613 million in revenue was 22 percent of Alliance Data Systems' total."

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