Gotta love them data breaches!

[thewayne]

Got an email a couple of nights ago from Tivo that their email processing service had been hacked and my email address had been compromised, so be on the lookout for more spam email. What a surprise. Today, Walgreens sent a similar email.

*sigh*

Both assured me that no other information was compromised and that it was a third-party email system that was only used for email marketing campaigns. We'll see.

[EDIT]

The instant after I posted this message, I got the following from 1-800-Flowers:

One of our email service providers, Epsilon, has informed us that we
are among a group of companies affected by a data breach that may
have exposed your email address to unauthorized third parties.
It's important to know that this incident did not
involve other account or personally identifiable information.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So is it legit or BS? I noticed the "unsubscribe" link for 1-800-flowers is a mile long on the same email I received.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Good point. This would be an excellent time to send out malware email.

I have not used the unsubscribe link since the email that I receive from the sites that were compromised is very light. I think what I would do is go directly to the site in question and unsubscribe via their preferences pages.

I don't normally unscreen anonymous posts, but you asked a cogent question rather than posted a bunch of URLs.