The Email Wars

How can this statement be comforting? If you lost 6.3 million records in your database and they were now out in the public domain, would you respond like he did? I hope not. Data theft is a very serious issue. I know that we have a system that logs people in and out and what actions they took by IP Location as well as permissions by user. If you are not keeping an eye on your email databases you should. Last thing you want it either someone getting into your data OR a disgruntled employee or employee of opportunity taking and giving up your list data. I personally know one company that had this happen with an employee that was terminated on a Friday only to login from home and export and delete the entire company email CRM. Fortunately we were able to get the login and user actions in about 5 minutes to put a stop to it for them. But imagine if you never knew…. it could really do some damage.

This quote below still stuns me.

6.3M Names Leaked from Ameritrade Database

Was spokesperson Dennis Hopper to blame?
Online brokerage company Ameritrade revealed this week that 6.3 million names from its database were stolen.

To ease the seething throng, no financial information or social security numbers were reportedly lost, according to DM News.

CEO Joe Moglia said while no financial info was taken, members will likely see an increase in unwanted spam, “which is annoying and inconvenient for them.”