Kroger, Others Warn Of Security Breach in Customer Files
ATLANTA -- Some companies are waing customers that hackers got into their customer files, accessing names and e-mail addresses.
Kroger was one of the first companies to let customers know about the breach. Three more retailers – Best Buy, Tivo and Walgreens – have also come forward saying their customers were also affected.
All of the companies use the same marketing firm – Epsilon.
Officials said hackers accessed Epsilon’s customer files. The companies use Epsilon to send out e-mails to customers.
Epsilon has said no personally identifiable information is stored in the files – it’s mainly just e-mail addresses. But companies are waing customers to be wary of e-mails asking for personal information.
In an e-mail to customers, Kroger assured shoppers the only information at risk is their names and e-mail addresses, but waed them not to open any e-mails from unknown senders.
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