Monday, April 4, 2011

JPMorgan (JPM) (BBY) (TIV) (KR) (WAG) Victims of Email Theft

A number of bank and businesses have had their emails and names of customers stolen by hackers, including JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM), Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), TIVO (NASDAQ:TIV)), Kroger (NYSE:KR), Walgreen (NYSE:WAG), Citigroup (NYSE:C), U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), Barclays (NYSE:BCS and Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF).

Epsilon, a division of Alliance Data Systems Corp., was the company which has been apparently hacked, with the probable theft of million in emails of the companies mentioned above, and others.

Other private information wasn't attained, according to Epsilon, but companies have been sending out warnings to their customers to be wary from emails claiming to be from them which ask for personal information which could be used to extract money from their accounts; a tactic called "phishing."

Normally this scheme involves the hackers to set up a site made to look like the site of a bank and then get them to log in using their user name and password, which they then can use to access the account itself.

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