<p>I got the Disney Destination one. I also got the CB email.</p>
<p>I got one from Barclay’s bank.</p>
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<p>Well…the hackers at the College Board probably also have your kids’ SAT/SAT2 scores… :)</p>
<p>About 2 years ago I received a snail mail letter from one of our financial account institutions saying some info had been hacked. They offered us a free 3 year credit monitoring program. The monitoring system works well, usually there is just a monthly email stating no activity has occurred. Maybe the above mentioned companies will be forthcoming with such an offer esp. since CB contains social security numbers!</p>
<p>I started receiving spam emails about a year ago on my 5 year old email account. The email I used was 100% clean, I never had spam mail until that day. It was very strange because the spammer knew my full name AND that fact that I was a student (I was getting TONS of financial aid related spam). **I suspect this is not the first time Epsilon experienced a security breach. ** I’m a college student now, I registered for the SAT years back and I still get college related spam mail!</p>
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<p>That’s the case with my AOL account. It’s a common first name with three digits attached to it. All spammers have to do is run a program with the name and a chronological list of numbers to pick it up. The AOl spam filter is pretty decent now. The biggest problem I have is with emails from companies I either order from, have a loyalty card with or websites I have visited.</p>
<p>My gmail and ATT accounts never get spam but I try to keep those for more business types activities.</p>
<p>I got the Brookstone email, but it has to be at least 5 years since I bought anything from Brookstone. I thought the email was spam.</p>
<p>Ditto re: hacking. It said do not reply. Urgh. gmail filters spam fairly well, though.</p>
<p>So far, I’ve gotten this notice from college board, Abebooks, Disney destinations, US Bank, and New York & Company, and they all say only name and e-mail was seen. I wouldn’t be surprised if more come along.</p>
<p>This is slightly off topic but this really ticks me off. I just got an email from Seabourn cruises. A friend is thinking about taking this cruise and asked me to look at it (she knows nothing about cruises and I do). So I got to website for a few minutes and look around. Never signed up for anything, never gave my email. Now all of a sudden I’m getting email from them. Isn’t there some way to surf the web incognito? This type of thing is really clogging up my email. In this case, AOL recognized it as spam.</p>
<p>Also received one from New York & Co. yesterday.
I guess I should expect for one from College Board too then.
And yes, already an email from some joker promising I’m getting a $25000 Pell Grant.
Good grief…</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten any notification e-mails yet (or I hit delete and never read) but I’m getting at least 2x the amount of spam this past week. Most goes to the spam box, but many are getting through…the name at the front end of the e-mail looks legit but the @address is mumbojumbo. I haven’t opened any but I’m tired of cleaning and deleting. Nothing odd is coming into my “secret” e-mail address, only my usual aol box.</p>
<p>Haven’t read the whole thread…sorry if this is a repeat question. Why is it that reputable companies are allowed to use hacked lists? Is there a fine if they are caught?</p>
<p>Oh shoot…You mean I’m not getting a $25,000 Pell Grant?</p>
<p>Just this evening I got a notice from Best Buy/Geek Squad. Wonder why it took them so long compared to the other companies mentioned. </p>
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<p>Nope. You are always being watched.</p>
<p>after getting a couple related emails (one from college board and one from a book store) just read the article about this issue. i believe the two emails i got were creative spammers who quickly jumped on this to try and get me to link through to something. when i got the email fm what appeared to be the college board, i right-clicked and looked at ‘message options’. The messages i got were definitely being re-routed…ie, not really from the college board. so, beware…</p>
<p>I saw last night that this affects Verizon too.</p>
<p>Oh, yes, I got a couple of emails regarding Pell Grants and also something about hurrying to claim some scholarship that was waiting for me, lol! They were trying to create an urgency for me to open up the spam mail. I received those emails about a week ago.</p>
<p>amy, thanks for the warning. Ugh, these people will stop at nothing.</p>
<p>I got one today from Disney Destinations. It said their email files only had been compromised. It also suggested NOT to open any unusual emails because the hacker may include viruses, etc.</p>