Walmart apologizes for a burst of offensive and racist Walmart.com registration emails sent to thousands of people yesterday. Starting at approximately 2 AM EST yesterday, people worldwide began receiving new user registration emails where the member name was a racist slur. Walmart sent an email apologizing to those who received the offensive emails and stated that they are updating their account sign-up process to prevent these issues in the future. It is not clear how these emails were sent out, but it is believed that someone took a list of email addresses and used it to create thousands of Walmart accounts.
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