Apple has been spoofed in a new spam campaign that is going around. The fraudulent emails, which claim to come from Apple, tell recipients that their AppleID has been disabled. The emails then go on to solicit passwords and credit card numbers, telling customers that sharing these will alleviate the problem.

Last year, global data breaches reached 1,500, which was up 50 percent from 2013, according to Gemalto's Breach Level Index (BLI). The report, which is based on publically-disclosed incidents, also revealed that 800 million of the one billion pieces of data that were exposed came from U.S. companies. These data breaches included the exposure of personal consumer data including email addresses, names and even credit cards.

Google has reportedly stopped offering Sparrow, an inbox management application, which is no longer iTunes and the Android Store. The tech giant acquired the French startup in 2012 for its gesture-based inbox management tools. It has been a while since the app has gotten an update and appears to be being phased out, as Google focuses on its new Inbox email app.

A group of developers in India are hoping to help email users identify the source of emails sent from unknown senders. The startup has created a tool called Vibe that identifies a sender's IP address and email address in order to identify the sender's name, photo, work history, social media profile, along with other personal details. The tool already has more than 100,000 users and more than 230 enterprise clients.

Fifty-four percent of mobile emails sent in the UK is opened on an Apple device, according to research from SendGrid. The report also revealed that only 8 percent of mobile email is opened on an Android device. The researchers looked at a 10-day period at the beginning of 2015 and compared it to the same time frame in 2014 and noted that mobile email open rates on Android devices dropped 30 percent year over year.

French startup Le Camping has created an application that gives a human face to a virtual assistant via email. The tool is called Julie Desk. Applying artificial intelligence to the inbox, Julie responds to emails to set up meetings and send out calendar invites based on the user's calendar. A user just has to cc Julie on the email exchange and she'll check the Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, or iCloud account to confirm availability and send out calendar invites. And it is all done with real human language.

The University of St Andrews has apologized to hundreds of applicants after incorrectly emailing the list of students acceptance letters. The congratulations email was only meant to go out to a select group of students that had already been accepted. However the email went out to the whole list of all 760 applicants.

A private investigator in New York is facing charges for hiring a hacker company to steal the email credentials of people he was investigating. The investigator is expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks. In another case federal prosecutors in San Francisco have indicted two private investigators and two hackers on charges for hacking email and Skype accounts.

One third of Americans admit to having read their significant other's emails, according to a new survey from mobile email firm My.com. The research includes feedback from 600 consumers. Among those people that have read their partner's emails, 17 percent admit doing it "at least once" and more than 12 percent admitted they do it "every chance I get."

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced an email privacy bill that would require law enforcement agencies to get a warrant in order to require a U.S. company to share its customers emails that are older than 180 days. The bill would also allow the U.S. government access Americans' data on data stored overseas. Apple, Microsoft, IBM and Verizon have supported the proposal. However, The Internet Association, which works with the likes of Google, Facebook and Yahoo, are concerned about the data storage overseas policy. The group is concerned that it warned might inspire host governments to access private data, a …