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Yes, I got one the other day from one of the online book merchant membership sites. It looked legit, but I did not click on any links or download any images (just to be sure).
Here is a copy of the text
Quote:
Epsilon Informs AbeBooks of E-mail Database Breach
We have been informed by Epsilon, a third-party vendor we use to send e-mails, that an unauthorized person outside their company accessed files that included e-mail addresses of some AbeBooks customers. Epsilon has advised us that the files that were accessed did not include any customer information other than email addresses.
As a reminder, AbeBooks will never ask customers for personal or account information in an e-mail. Please exercise caution if you get any emails that ask for personal information or direct you to a site where you are asked to provide personal information.
It's on the news and its legit. Many companies used this same company that sends out their email marketing and that was hacked so all the names and emails may have been stolen. Its only names and emails, no other information.
The important thing after receiving those notificiations is to be suspicious of any emails you get from those companies now. The thieves know you have an email relationship with that company, so they may try a phishing attack.
This is pretty good example of why you should use different passwords.
Let's suppose this breach included passwords for the email accounts and some emails. Typically passwords stored in a database should use a one way encryption, the password itself is the key to decrypt it. In the case of a breach the password data is pretty useless to those that obtain it however not all sites/services take this precautions.
If the passwords are stored in plain text or easily decrypted the hacker can look through some emails and potentially discover other sites you use like online banking. Armed with the information and the password gained from the hacked site or service they can now gain access to these other sites if you are using the same password.
Since I have never used their service, I am not really concerned about that.
If you've never made an account with HSN, how do you suppose they obtained your name and email address?
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