Millions of email addresses stolen from Marks & Spencer...

The email addresses of millions of customers on Marks and Spencer’s database were stolen by hackers recently as part of a major data breach of the internet marketing firm Epsilon. Epsilon, who call themselves “the leading provider of multi-channel marketing services”, have 2,500 corporate clients worldwide and send 40 billion emails a year to their customers.

Files containing the names and email addresses of customers were accessed by unauthorized entry into their computer system. Tesco are also known to use Epsilon for their marketing, however they categorically deny that any of their customers’ details have been stolen.

M&S were forced to send an email to all their customers stating: More...

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