NEW YORK (Reuters) – Customers of Verizon Communications had their email addresses exposed in a massive online data breach last week, according to an email to customers obtained by Reuters.
In what could be one of the biggest such attacks in U.S. history, a computer hacker penetrated the online marketer Epsilon, which controls the customer email databases for a broad swath of companies.
This was bound to happen. It's a pretty big score for the bad guys. The natural spike in phishing scams is soon to come, and so far there hasn't been any indication that they have any leads. They are going to slam the lid down tight on this one, but the damage is already done.
This is why I take those extra few seconds to type in my credit card numbers and don't store any information online. One has to consider the thousands upon thousands of hacking attempts that are deflected every single day, and put this into perspective. This was inevitable, and it will happen again. It was just our bad luck that they happened to score off a major database. There is no word as to what damages Epsilon may be responsible for, or how they plan to handle this publicity nightmare.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment