Epsilon...are we all getting hacked?

Recently, Epsilon was hacked and over 50 companies e-mails and clients names were stolen..

Hackers have gained the names and email addresses of millions of people who do business with a variety of companies, by way of third-party email marketing provider Epsilon. Epsilon claims to be the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider, sending over 40 billion emails annually. It works with more than 2,500 clients, including 7 of the Fortune 10. Among company’s affected were US Bank, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Best Buy, Kroger, TiVo, Walgreen’s, and Robert Half. Epsilon said in a statement:

so far, i have gotten e-mails from..

best buy
target
ups
fed-ex
chase bank
J P morgan
All of them have zipped attachments on them..

I don't open them of course, I'm pretty sure they are some form of virus..

If you have received any of these..please let us know here so we can all be on the look out..thanks..BM

Epsilon hacked

be careful what you open..

I just got an email from capital one saying something similar...their database got stolen or something....

Anything to do with anonymous?

Will keep an eye out, thanks

eta: can't read the article...need a subscription to the site.....

reply to post by BadBoYeed


I fixed the link..

did yours have a zipped attachment on it?

According to the information I received the hackers only stole Email address and possibly phone numbers no account details. I received two warning letters at one of my web mail accounts no attachments. Other than a possible increase in spam I don't see much concern, Email addresses get passed around all the time. Do you think this was a targeted attack? What were the attackers after?

I received 3 emails from HSN,Target and Walgreens. HSN was the first to respond to the Epsilon breach. I received the other 2 emails earlier this past week. There were No attachments. All emails were official. Nevertheless,I deleted the email acct. associated to this! Hope this info helps.

reply to post by baddmove


no, it was really from capital one.

"As we have communicated over the course of the last week, Epsilon—a marketing vendor that sends e-mails on our behalf—notified us about unauthorized outside access to files that included Capital One® customer e-mail addresses."

it was strange, from reading this email to reading your thread was like 5 min

reply to post by BadBoYeed


Yea, I got one from my bank (Chase) and then i got a phone call on Friday

and they told me they deposited 25$ back into my account,

I didn't even know the 25$ was missing..too weird..

(It was on my answering machine...)

This morning i received an e-mail from "Mail notification failure"

It was in a group of about 20 other peoples e-mail also..

like a forward type mail...

and it had a .zip file on it also..

hmmm......

I got one the other day from Krogers. It said that they had a security breach and the only thing that was stolen was Names and email addresses. Just lovely!!! I hope that was all that was taken.