On Friday I got the following message from my bank:
This sent me off to the Google, where I found this article on the PC World website: Massive Epsilon E-Mail Breach Hits Citi, Chase, Many More.
It appears at this point that only email addresses and names are involved, and no other personal information. Nonetheless, this will doubtlessly result in lot of spam and especially phishing attempts, given that a lot of financial institutions are involved.
Just now I received another message, this one from an online bookseller:As a valued [redacted] Bank customer, we want to make you aware of a situation that has occurred related to your email address.
We have been informed by Epsilon Interactive, a vendor based in Dallas, Texas, that files containing your email address were accessed by unauthorized entry into their computer system. Epsilon helps us send you emails about products and services that may be of interest to you.
We want to assure you that [redacted] Bank has never provided Epsilon with financial information about you. 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.
We have been informed by Epsilon, a third-party vendor we use to send e-mails, that an unauthorized person outside their company accessed files that included e-mail addresses of some AbeBooks customers. Epsilon has advised us that the files that were accessed did not include any customer information other than email addresses.
As a reminder, AbeBooks will never ask customers for personal or account information in an e-mail. Please exercise caution if you get any emails that ask for personal information or direct you to a site where you are asked to provide personal information.
This sent me off to the Google, where I found this article on the PC World website: Massive Epsilon E-Mail Breach Hits Citi, Chase, Many More.
It appears at this point that only email addresses and names are involved, and no other personal information. Nonetheless, this will doubtlessly result in lot of spam and especially phishing attempts, given that a lot of financial institutions are involved.