Several large companies’ customer lists were compromised over the weekend when hackers broke into their systems and got customer email lists. The Minneapolis Star Tribune explains what is likely to happen with the addresses…
The email addresses could be used to target spam. It’s also a standard tactic among online fraudsters to send emails to random people, purporting to be from a large bank and asking them to login in at a site that looks like the bank’s site. Instead, the fraudulent site captures their login information and uses it to access the real account. The data breach could make these so-called “phishing” attacks more efficient, by allowing the fraudsters to target people who actually have an account with the bank.

Submitted by Minneapolis Real Estate Agent, Mary Rugani.