Epsilon Data Breach Bigger Than Just Kroger Customers' Data 115
wiredmikey writes with an update to the previously reported Epsilon breach: "It turns out that Kroger is only one of many customers affected by the breach at Epsilon, which sends over 40 billion emails annually and counts over 2,500 clients, including 7 of the Fortune 10, to build and host their customer databases. It has been confirmed that the customer names and email addresses, and in a few cases other pieces of information, were compromised at several major brands, a list which continues to grow ..." An anonymous reader points out that U.S. Bank is on the list of affected companies; I wonder how many more phishing attempts this will mean.
Paul Erdos would not have been surprised (Score:2, Funny)
Erdos, who never married, would greet the sight of a colleague's toddler by exclaiming, "Aha, an epsilon!" Even an absent-minded mathematician would have realized that you don't put customer data in the custody of an Epsilon.