I have been informed from my credit card company and Target who I had an account with last year that :
Recently, XXXXXXXX was notified of a system breach at Epsilon, a third-party vendor that provides marketing services to a number of companies, including XXXXXXi. The information obtained was limited to the customer name and email address of some credit card customers. No account information or other information was compromised and therefore there is no reason to re-issue a new card.
I Xed out credit card company name.
First IBM loses hard discs with over one million people affected including their SS numbers and financial and medical info and now this. At least "supposedly" with the newest breach less info obtained , but don't know if I believe that.
Bill Pytlovany the author of this blog is a security software developer recognized the world over for his program WinPatrol http://winpatrol.com and his endless work in the fight against Malware and Spyware. As luck would have it he lives here in Scotia.
On March 31, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers were accessed without authorization.
We have been assured by Epsilon that the only information that may have been obtained was your email address and that the accessed files did not include any other information. A rigorous assessment by Epsilon determined that no other information is at risk. We are actively investigating to confirm this.
For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails. As our experts at Geek Squad would tell you, be very cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown senders.
In keeping with best industry security practices, Best Buy will never ask you to provide or confirm any information, including credit card numbers, unless you are on our secure e-commerce site, http://www.bestbuy.com. If you receive an email asking for personal information, delete it. It did not come from Best Buy.
Our service provider has reported this incident to the appropriate authorities.
If you were vigilant before the breach and took reasonable precautions, than this is a non-issue. Its email addresses that were breached, and if you don't think most of you are on spammers lists already, in most cases, you are sadly mistaken. Unless spammers come up with a new signature to get by the anti-spam tools, all you will see is a few more spam messages in your inbox and that's it.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
Geek Squad ha ha ha but in this case they do offer the correct info. Bill's P's blog offers some additional info to help you stay out of trouble when opening emails.A list of all the companies that are effected the impacts and a link to a website with all the companies listed can be found here. http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2011/04/epsilon-lets-its-customers-fix-their.html
That's kind of funny, since they expect the attacks to come via email. I guess an extra piece of paper junk mail wasn't worth it? (for the cc companies that ALREADY have our mailing addresses?)
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
We have been informed by Epsilon, a provider of Verizon's email marketing services, that your email address was exposed due to unauthorized access to its systems. Verizon uses Epsilon to send marketing communications on our behalf.
Epsilon has assured us that the information exposed was limited to email addresses, and that no other information about you or your account was exposed.
As always, you should be cautious when opening email links or attachments from unknown or suspicious parties, or emails purporting to be from Verizon and asking for financial or account password information. It is our policy to never ask for this information in emails. If you receive such emails, do not reply to them. You can report suspect or unwanted emails to Verizon at abuse@verizon.net and can obtain more information on how to protect against spam and phishing attacks on Verizon's Privacy Policy page by clicking on "Tips for Guarding Your Information" located at the top right hand corner of the page. Our privacy policy can be found at Verizon.com/privacy.
We regret any inconvenience this may cause you. Please be assured that we take the privacy of your information very seriously.
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