Email addresses stolen from marketing firm Epsilon could be used to send targeted attacks to banking customers. The banks are “freaking out” about the leak, says Gartner’s Avivah Liten. Epsilon is the latest breach of a marketing partner that put its clients’ customers at risk. The attacks should convince companies to take a second, if not a third, look at their outsourced providers’ security, says Litan. While credit-card information comes with an industry mandated set of security standards, names and email addresses are not protected in the same way.”]
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