Spammers Target Kroger Customers
Supermarket giant Kroger Company is the latest major business to disclose that its customer list has fallen into the hands of spammers and scam artists.
Supermarket giant Kroger Company is the latest major business to disclose that its customer list has fallen into the hands of spammers and scam artists.
McDonald’s and Walgreens this week revealed that data breaches at partner marketing firms had exposed customer information. There has been a great deal of media coverage treating these and other similar cases as isolated incidents, but all signs indicate they are directly tied to a spate of “spear phishing” attacks against e-mail marketing firms that have siphoned customer data from more than 100 companies in the past few months.