Summary
The article that I found is about a company that should have had better security measures for their information about their clients. Within the past week Capital One has had a malicious act occur to their information as somebody was able to collect some of those clients' email addresses. A company named Epsilon, a marketing vender used to send emails, was the actually company that lost this information. Thankfully, the only thing collected were email addresses and not any other personal information. Epsilon and Capital One are investigating the matter. Capital One also reminds their clients not respond to emails asking for private information. They also explain that just because the link looks familiar, it might lead you to a fraudulent site.
My Opinion
Obviously, Epsilon should have had a better security system in place. Especially since they are a responsible for sending out Capital One's emails. Like I said before, they only collected email addresses. Yet, a stolen email address can be enough for a malicious act to occur for the owner of the address. This act will cause major public relations problems for Epsilon and Capital One. This could result in business losses for both companies. Epsilon will feel a major blow as potential customers and other current companies may look elsewhere.
Sources:
http://www.capitalone.com/protection/email.php?linkid=WWW_1009_Z_A0B2084C1F86D22A0E1FFBF38F9G1F85H5AF4I7CC8_HOME_C1_02_T_ALERTEMAIL
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