1800Flowers Email Data Breach

[Eric S]

Recieved this email today from 1800Flowers.com

Dear 1800Flowers.com Customer:

One of our email service providers, Epsilon, has informed us that we
are among a group of companies affected by a data breach that may
have exposed your email address to unauthorized third parties.
It's important to know that this incident did not
involve other account or personally identifiable information.
We use permission-based email service providers such as Epsilon
to help us manage email communications to our customers.

We take your privacy very seriously and we work diligently to ensure
your private information is always protected. Epsilon has assured
us that no private information, other than your email address,
was involved in the incident. We regret any inconvenience
that this may cause you.

Because of this incident, we advise you to be extremely cautious
before opening emails from senders you do not recognize.

We thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Sincerely,

Bibi Brown
Director, Customer Service

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

a number of other large corporations were also victims.....

 

[theRKF]

I got the same email from Hilton hotels.

 

[bootcampguy]

Go the same one from "Gourmet Rednecks"

 

[sandytf]

I got it from two different companies I do business with. This "Epsilon" company must provide email service to just about everyone!

 

[BOSS]

"Gourmet Rednecks"

Why doesn't that sound odd?....

 

[Mikey the Flower Guy]

Why doesn't that sound odd?....

does it contain prunes??......