A hacker named Mastermind has stolen and published more than 20 million email addresses from dating websites in order to point out how many fake profiles exist on data sites. He told IBTimes UK, that his intention was not to sell this stolen information but to show how online dating sites need to clean up their databases.

WikiLeaks is upset after finding out that Google shared emails and data that belonged to WikiLeaks staff members with the FBI in March 2012. The site has sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that they were "astonished and disturbed" that Google waited until now to disclose this information.

Sixty-seven percent of marketers say that email list growth is very important to their business, according to a new report from Ascend2. The study also revealed that 43 percent of marketers consider list growth expertise a No. 1 issue and 61 percent of respondents admitted that their email list is growing slowly.

On Tuesday, tech companies sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees to push forward updated legislation surrounding email privacy. Companies including Amazon, eBay and Facebook signed the letter demanding that Congress finalize a bill that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching a citizen's emails.

As if Sony Entertainment hasn't been through enough with leaks surrounding its film business. Now top executives at Sony Music preparing for more email leaks that will reveal artist contracts, salaries and even riders. Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, has already issued a "blanket apology" in advance of the threat.

Midwestern cable provider Mediacom has been suffering technical issues, leaving some customers unable to access their email accounts. The telecommunications company said that the issue stemmed from a data transfer between servers. However, an unrelated problem led to the delay in the transfer. Only a small number of customers were affected and the company is working to address the problem.

We've heard a lot about the death of email, but the death of the Internet? Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, thinks that the Internet as we know it today will all go away. On a panel called "The Future of the Digital Economy" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Schmidt said that the internet will disappear and be replaced by a networked environment. "There will be so many IP addresses, ... so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won't even sense it, it will be part of your …

More than 90 percent of the data breaches that happened in the first half of 2014 could have been prevented if businesses had a strong risk prevention plan in order, says the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). In a new report from OTS, entitled, 2015 Data Protection Best Practices and Risk Assessment Guides, the organization revealed that 40 percent of data breaches that included exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) were caused by external intrusions.

The U.S. Senate suffered an email outage last night. The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Twitter account tweeted the news last night. Technicians are working to restore service. The government has yet to reveal what caused the disruption in service.

Retailers sent more personalized email marketing messages last year and less discounts, according to a study by email marketing firm Listrak. These companies also got more proactive about list building, encouraging web visitors to sign up for their lists as soon as they entered their site. According to the report, personalized emails sent by the Top 500 retailers was up 22.2 percent in 2014.