The government in British Columbia, Canada has shut down its servers after a virus caused by email spam has infected the organization's email servers. Bette-Jo Hughes, chief information officer at the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens' Services, revealed that a malicious file attachment was the culprit. "Government takes this matter very seriously," she said in a statement. "As a precaution, we have temporarily disabled our email servers while we work with our vendors to resolve the issue."

Google has filed one of its own marketing emails as spam in one user's Gmail inbox. A Consumerist reader shared the story with the blog, revealing that a message from Google Play ended up in his Gmail spam folder.

Digital payments startup Stripe has an unusual email transparency policy at work. The company stores all of its employees' emails in a server that can be accessed by anyone in the company. In other words, almost every email sent within the company can be read by all employees. Private emails are a rare occurrence.

Google has given Inbox for Android an upgrade and the new email app now integrates with Android Wear smartwatches and tablets. Android Wear smart watch wearers will get a buzz when their email arrives. The app will let users can speak to compose a reply message. The update also brings about an optimized experience on Android tablets.

Actress Angelina Jolie has reportedly hired a team of experts to protect the online security of her children. After her name made headlines as part of Sony's massive data breach, the 39 year-old actress wants to keep her own family's business private.

Snapchat's private business plans were leaked as part of Sony Pictures' massive data breach. Email exchanges between Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and Sony Pictures' CEO Michael Lynton, who sits on Snapchat's board of directors, revealed information that the startup aimed to keep private. "I felt like I was going to cry all morning, so I went on a walk and thought through a couple things," Spiegel wrote in a memo sent to employees this week. Leaked information includes the fact the acquisition of a company focused on wearable technology, as well as more details about why Snapchat did not want …

Spammers have hacked into the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) system and taken control of employee email accounts, as well as stolen the personal information of people that do business with the group. ICANN revealed that the breach also gave attackers access to all files stored in its centralized zone data system.

Fake Walmart email confirmation emails are in circulation. The spam message claims that the users has an order in process and that the recipient needs to click on a link in order to complete the transaction. However, these duplicitous messages link to malicious sites that are intended to steal customer data. Walmart encourages consumers to forward these messages to: abuse@walmart.com.

App developer Cluster Labs has a new email app. Compose is a new app designed for the person with an overwhelming inbox. The app allows a user to avoid checking their email when they want to simply write an email, without getting sucked into other incoming email.

The daily email newsletter theSkimm has gotten a major endorsement. Oprah Winfrey recently tweeted that she has signed up for the daily news briefing's list. The startup, founded by Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, two former associate producers at NBC News, has raised $6.25 million in financing and counts more than a million subscribers.