Computer files containing Email addresses of US bank/Chase card holders compromised at epsilon

[andre181]

Just got an email from Target. They are affected too.

[AndySoCal]

The company Epsilon that was hacked is one of the largest third party email companies. They send out the promotional emails on behalf of those companies that were affected.  This affected many of the large banks and retailers. The only information that was compromised was your name and Email address.  The result of this may be more spam. Be very very wary of any email asking for any information from any company  call them directly ask them first.  You will receive notices form any comany that you have supplied them with your email that uses Epilson. This company wuoul have not financial info about you.

[vish1]

When we talk about emails, that primarily means emails like alerts say available credit, payment posted etc. This to me indicates that epsilon may have access to other credit information (directly or indirectly). I am just a bit confused if banks/epsilon is underplaying it and most importantly if recent compromise of security data at RSA has a role to play here (in a sense that if any info about security logics stolen from RSA was applied to get into the computer systems of epsilon).

By any chance, this is just my speculation and I may be just too negative here but I have once worked on banking transaction security and I understand that once you break some pieces of info, you may be able to break into much more info.

[AndySoCal]

They would not have any financial info about you they are not in that business.

[vish1]

How do they generate a mail saying that available credit in your account ending with 1234 has dropped below 10000?

[AndySoCal]

That type of notification is not coming form them.  If you get an email telling you about a new product or service that would come from them.

[vish1]

That makes me feel better, thanks.

[clocktick]

Got an email from my 1800FLOWERS account about this.  I just saw this thread so this is larger than I thought!

[DI]

I'm about tired of receiving all the emails from different companies concerning the security breach.  I just got one from Sears. 

[haulingthescoreup]

Just got one from Chase, the first so far.

I've been perturbed for a good while now at the number of legitimate e-mails from banks that have links to their sites, allowing/ inviting you to click the link on the e-mail to go to their sites and log in with username and password. That's a terrible practice --it makes it all the more likely that a customer will get phished, because we're used to seeing the link.

I make it a practice to never click on a link in an e-mail. I have all my banks bookmarked. If I need to look at something, I ignore the link in the e-mail and go straight to the site. I don't want to get in the habit of using e-mail links, because one day I'll be in a hurry and get suckered in.