Hackers Steal Kroger's Customer List 185
wiredmikey writes "Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer with more than 338,000 associates, notified customers today of a breach of the database that stores its customers' names and email addresses. The company said the incident occurred at Epsilon, the third-party vendor Kroger uses to manage its customer email database." Reader SatanClauz
SatanClauz quotes the email that went out to Kroger customers ("We were notified and became aware of unauthorized access to our email list by someone outside our company. We want to assure you that the only information that was obtained were names and email addresses."), writing "At least they were smart enough to separate the email db from the rest of customer information! — or so they say..."
Re:Emails? (Score:5, Funny)
You'd be dismayed at how often people actually believe that the guy behind the counter or on the end of a tech support line is the best target for a discussion about corporate policies and general unhappiness with capitalism and assorted laws of physics. The latter came up more than once in tech support. I declined to alter the universe at a fundamental level.