Hillary Clinton hosted a press conference on acknowledging that she should have had a work email address when she served as secretary of state. She admitted that it "would have been better" to use a government email address separate from her personal one. She said that she had chosen to use one address so that she could carry one device instead of two -- one for personal use and one for official use. Still, she said that her process followed State Department regulations and has turned over all of her work emails to the State Department for review.

De-Mail, a German email service that is backed by the German government, will soon begin offering end-to-end encryption on all emails based on the Pretty Good Privacy system. The company will use a browser plug-in to encrypt messages that are in transit. The service is available to anyone that wants to send encrypted emails.

The three men charged with hacking into the servers of email providers and stealing more than a billion email addresses, allegedly stole the addresses from eight different companies between 2009 and 2012. The men are also accused of using this list to send spam messages to tens of millions of people.

Big data has the power to make email marketing messages more effective by allowing marketers to target audiences based on intelligent information. However, it isn't an easy to implement as it sounds and many marketers are having trouble taking full advantage of big data. Direct Marketing News has spoken with a number of industry experts who weigh in on the subject.

Rich Ord, CEO of email newsletter business iEntry, says that the newsletter is as powerful as ever. In an interview with Kentucy.com, Ord argues that B2B newsletters are where the money is, as compared to consumer content. The company sends a couple hundred email newsletters with content targeted at specific job titles in different market segmentations that advertisers can sponsor.

The Illinois Tollway has warned consumers about a phishing scam in circulation using its name. The emails feature legitimate logos and come with the subject lines "Indebted for driving on toll road" or "Payment for driving on toll road." The emails claim that bills are past due and tries to solicit a payment.

Republican Lindsey Graham has never sent an email. The South Carolina Senator admitted this on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday as part of an interview which touched on Hillary Clinton's controversial use of a home-based email server while she was secretary of state.

With Hillary Clinton currently in hot water over using her personal email address while serving as secretary of state, it is worth remembering that this email address was once the victim of a cyber hack. The Romanian hacker Guccifer, who is now serving seven years for cyber crime, hacked into the AOL account of journalist Sidney Blumenthal who was a close friend of Hillary Clinton. After the hack, the hacker leaked a set of emails exchanged between Clinton and Blumenthal along with Hillary's address.

Canada's Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has plans to issue a $1.1 million (CAD) fine against corporate training company Compu-Finder, for allegedly breaking Canada's anti-spam legislation. The Quebec-based company has 30 days to contest the CRTC's claims. This is the first time that CRTC has sought fined a company for breaking its new anti-spam laws.

Ten cabinet members in the Obama administration have revealed that they use a personal email account for official business, but not always. The officials told TIME that they use these accounts to conduct official business, in a move to stand by Hillary Clinton, who is being criticized for using a private email account while serving as Secretary of State. Officials include cabinet members at the departments of Defense, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Interior, Homeland Security and Justice.