British mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse has reported that the data of as many as 2.4 million customers may have been exposed in a data breach. The company said it was the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack, which may have exposed the names, email addresses and bank details of customers. In addition, the credit card data of 90,000 customers may have been exposed, though the data was encrypted.

The federal government is expecting to spend more than $500 million in the next five years to manage data breaches. The money will be spent to clean up the damage that results from exposed data which often includes private information such as email passwords, credit card numbers and social security numbers. The government is budgeting this money to pay contractors that can mange these events.

Canadian startup Fuzzy.io has hired Kevin Fox, the developer that created the user interface for Gmail. Fox will serve as the Montreal-based company's chief experience officer. In addition to Google, Fox has worked for Yahoo, Facebook and Mozilla.

According to new research from eMarketer, 35 percent of marketers said that enhancing their targeting and segmenting was their leading priority. The Email Marketing Benchmarks 2015: Are Performance Metrics Revealing Signs of Consumer Fatigue? report also found that 33 percent of marketers said that using real-time data was their main priority and 33 percent said that greater use of analytics was their main objective.

More than 10 percent of the tech employees at Indiana University fell prey to a phishing attack. The University tested the department and found that more than 100 of the 1,000 team members were duped by spam emails. The email claimed to come from IU's Chief Information Officer and instructed the recipient to create an email under his name but not his email address.

Welcome emails are taking off among the leading e-commerce companies in India. Marketing firm Betaout analyzed the welcome series of the firms: Jabong, BlueStone, BigBasket, Caratlane, FabFurnish, Nykaa, Urbanladder, FirstCry, Snapdeal, and Koovs and found that all of these companies had some form of welcome email.

Epsilon has partnered with social marketing firm Lithium/Klout in order to put social media insights into the hands of email marketers. Essentially, Epsilon will feed Klout the Twitter handles of the customers on its clients' lists, in order to overlay social posting data with the user's email address. Klout will use the Twitter handles to track consumer's social interactions on defined topics to help marketers identify trends among customers.

InboxVudu, a tool to help email users prioritize their inboxes, has introduced an iOS app as well as an app for the Apple Watch. The platform applies language recognition to emails to identify important messages and places them higher in the inbox. The app sends users alerts when these important messages come through. The tool also allows users to create task lists based on task request emails.

Hillary Clinton has released a statement saying that she has provided all of her State Department work-related emails to a judge under oath. The statement comes as Clinton is under investigation by the FBI for using a private email server for her work communications while she was secretary of state. In addition, the State Department had reported in June that at least 15 emails were not released by Clinton.

Yahoo Mail users are complaining that email messages they have deleted have returned to their inboxes. Since early July, more than 100 users have complained about the issue on Yahoo's email forum. Some users have complained about upwards of thousands of emails that they had deleted repopulating their inboxes.