If you don’t know, Epsilon, an Email marketing provider, has announced on March 30 that “an incident was detected where a subset of Epsilon clients’ customer data were exposed by an unauthorized entry into Epsilon’s email system”. In other words, a large number of email lists – milions of email addresses – have been compromised and now may receive spam email messages as a result.
Today, I receive an important message from Polo Ralph Lauren…
“To our valued customers,
Polo Ralph Lauren’s former email service provider, Epsilon, recently informed us that an unauthorized third party gained access to an Epsilon email application and obtained names and email addresses of Polo Ralph Lauren customers. We have been informed by Epsilon that the company took immediate action to address the system vulnerability and is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate. We regret that you may have been affected by this.
