As scope of e-mail hack grows, should you be worried?

John D. Sutter, CNN, writes that The world's largest "permissions-based" e-mail marketing company, Epsilon, reported late last week that someone hacked into its computer system and stole an unknown number of e-mail addresses and names.


The scope of this breach is potentially huge and has continued to grow over the weekend, with companies like TiVo, JPMorgan Chaseand Capital One coming forward to say their customers have been affected. Epsilon reports sending 40 billion e-mails per year on behalf of its 2,500 clients. Reuters calls this potentially "one of the biggest such breaches in U.S. history."


Acquiring a database as huge as this is a fairly terrifying thing to imagine. With this, spammers will get to target more addresses.


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/04/epsilon.stolen.emails/index.html
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