Following up last week's massive theft of millions of email addresses and names from Epsilon, I thought I'd cobble together a list of the companies known-to-date to have been impacted by the breach….because this theft is truly dangerous, in a creeping, insidious way.
Remember, the thieves did NOT get credit card information. A good hacker, however, only needs a matching real name and email address. Then s/he can build a perfectly legitimate-looking email from one of these companies, and send it to you with a bad link on it.
After all, if Best Buy sent you an email that said all you needed to do was “click here” for 400 bonus points to be added to your Best Buy Rewards program total, wouldn’t you do that?
And that’s why this theft is so scary. Because if *I* were a hacker, I wouldn’t use this information right now.
I’d do it three months from now, after you’ve forgotten all about the theft.
Be cautious with any email you receive from any of these companies, for a good, long time to come. Any links below will take you to carefully worded public statements from companies that have made them available.
(**Added to the list after original distribution. I sent this around the office on Wednesday, April 6.)
1-800-FLOWERS
AbeBooks
Air Miles (Canada)
Ameriprise Financial
**Ann Taylor credit card (by WFNNB)
Barclay's Bank of Delaware (BJ's and L.L. Bean)
Beachbody
Bebe Stores
Best Buy
Benefit Cosmetics
Brookstone
Capital One
Chase
Citigroup
City Market
College Board
**Crucial
**Dell
Dillons
Disney Destinations
Eddie Bauer
Eileen Fisher
Ethan Allen
Eurosport (Soccer.com)
Food 4 Less
Fred Meyer
Fry's Electronics
Hilton Honors program
Home Depot Credit Card (by Citibank)
Home Shopping Network
**Jay C
**J. Crew credit card (by WFNNB)
JPMorgan Chase
**King Soopers
Kroger
**Lacoste
Marks and Spencer
Marriott
McKinsey Quarterly
MoneyGram
New York & Co.
QFC
Ralph's
Red Roof Inns
Ritz-Carlton
Robert Half International
Scottrade
Smith Brands
Target
**Tastefully Simple
TD Ameritrade
**The Limited credit card (by WFNNB)
**TIAA-CREF
TiVo
US Bank
**Verizon
Walgreen's
World Financial Network National Bank (issues private-label credit cards, WFNNB, above)
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