The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has plans to release a new payment platform that will allow users to do real-time funds transfer between bank accounts with simply an email address or mobile phone number. The so called "instantaneous payment" option on the forthcoming system is supported by new government infrastructure.

The Indiana Department of Transportation has suspended an employee who sent a nasty email to a New York Times reporter. The Times columnist Charles M. Blow shared a screen grab of the rude letter on Facebook and tagged INDOT, asking: "I received this from one of your officials, during office hours, USING HIS .GOV email address. Shouldn't David be working instead of shooting off nasty emails? Is this how you use tax dollars?"

The IRS has warned about an email scam that fraudulently instructs recipients to make an Obamacare-related payment. The scam is a fake CP2000 notice, a form that identifies discrepancies when a third party has filed a different number than a taxpayer. The IRS does not send out notifications via email.

Hackers have broken into a Gmail account from a low-level White House staffer and shared the email archive on DCLeaks, the same site where Colin Powell's emails were posted. The emails mainly focus on daily business, but Michelle Obama's passport details were included in the leak.

The FBI is investigating a massive data breach at Yahoo that exposed the information from about a 500 million users. The so-called state-sponsodrred attack could be the largest publicly disclosed data breach in history. The hack took place in 2014.

The Florida director for Donald Trump's presidential campaign accidentally leaked an email which revealed some potential threats to raising money and mobilizing efforts in the state. The campaign had earmarked $1.9 million to use in the state, but the office has yet to see any of the cash. In the email, she wrote that time was running out to kick off the campaigning.

Banks are not finding much response when sending emails to customers over 50 years old. Community branches don't have half of their clients' email addresses and that number goes up for older clients. This is a key target, since Americans age 50 and above make 67 percent of all bank deposits and control 70 percent of the nation's assets.

SpeedCast International has launched a new maritime email communication tool called SpeedMail+. The platform allows people to send email, transfer files and apply anti-virus applications while at sea.

People are using their work email addresses for online accounts, which could have an adverse effect if there is a data breach. More than five million email addresses and passwords that were stolen in major data breach leaks were associated with work accounts, according to Digital Shadows. Surprisingly, 200,000 of the leaked credentials from the porn site Ashley Madison were work email addresses.

Website building firm Weebly has released a new email marketing tool. The platform, which serves some 40 million entrepreneurs, now allows companies to add email marketing within the same dashboard as their e-commerce platform.