The Epsilon Breach and its Effects on your Organization
by Brian Hole
Special Guest Contributor
Epsilon is a part of Alliance Data Systems Corporation. It discovered a data breach on March 30th and announced it on April 1st.
According to Epsilon "The affected clients are appropriately 2 percent of their total clients." Approximately 110 clients' email databases were breached including JP Morgan Chase, Best Buy, Walgreens, and more.
The compromised data included the combination of customer name and email address. To date there has been no disclosure on how many records were stolen, however it can be inferred from the customer list it was a lot.
No big deal right? It's just email. It's not credit card or social security numbers. Wrong.
Your security team should be reviewing incidents like this and ensuring that your corporate data is protected. Let's explore the effects of this breach on your organization.
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