A massive security breach which exposed the personal data of Army National Guard members was caused by a data transfer that was improperly handled, not hackers, a spokesman revealed this week. The breach leaked personal data of more than 850,000 Guard members, both current and former. The Guard revealed that the exposure took place during a transfer budget analysis and was due to poor security practices.

It has been two months since the U.S. government has discovered that the personal information and online data of 21.5 million Americans was exposed in a hack, yet none of the affected individuals been officially notified.The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency in charge of all of the data, is working with other agencies in order to create a system to alert victims. Insiders claim that the magnitude of the issue is making things move slowly and they don't expect a notification system to be in place until several weeks from now.

Girls creator Lena Dunham is launching an email newsletter aimed at young women called Lenny. The email will deliver content on feminism, style, health, politics, friendship and "everything else." Dunham revealed the news on Instagram. "We want to offer you moving personal essays, engaged politics, singular style, and a proud display of shortfalls. Lenny is your friend," she wrote in the social media update.

French email delivery startup Mailjet has secured $11 million (in a new round of funding) from existing investor Alven Capital along with Iris Capital and Seventure Partners. The company manages 600 million emails per month for 32,000 clients, offering tools for both marketing and transactional emails. The company revealed that 30 percent of its clients send only marketing campaigns, 30 percent send only transactional emails and 40 percent send both.

Facebook has teamed up with web development platform Wix to allow SMBs using Wix's email marketing app ShoutOut, the tools to create Facebook ads from within the platform. The ad creation tool will use stored email assets including content and images to build a Facebook ad.

Google's Inbox app wants users to be more proficient with its features. If you email yourself with a reminder for an action item, the app will suggest that you create an Inbox reminder instead. As soon as you enter your own email address in the 'To' Field, a banner pops up suggesting this alternative which can include text and a scheduled reminder time.

Eton College, an elite boys school in the UK, has apologized after sending emails to applicants telling them that they had secured a conditional place at the school. The email was only supposed to go out to 9 families and instead it went out to 400. The school called the mistake a systems error and is looking into the IT glitch that caused the problem.

Stanford University is migrating its email platform from Zimbra to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud-based email and calendar service. The majority of the faculty, staff and graduate students will have access to the new email platform. The university is upgrading its service in order to increase its storage space and for the integration with OneDrive, which allows users to store and share work files.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has released a 3,600 word fact sheet surrounding the presidential candidate's use of a private email server while running the State Department instead of getting an official email address. The document includes information about government transparency policies, as well as why Clinton handed the emails over for public release.

The Harvard Business Review is offering customers an option to register for its article database in exchange for sharing their email address. Instead of paying a fee per article, the site is allowing users to share their email address in order to gain unlimited access to the site's content which includes articles and a visual library.