The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to beware an email spam in circulation that claims to help the recipient's spam filter. The email has the subject line, "Mailbox Helpdesk" and tells recipients that it includes "new security updates need to be performed on our servers, due to the rate of phishing." The email is loaded with malicious software.

The Department of Justice is investigating a data breach at Uber which may be linked to an employee at the competitor's service Lyft. The data breach, which took place last year, could have exposed the personal data of tens of thousands of Uber drivers, including their names, email addresses, phone numbers and drivers license numbers.

The BGR Store is running a sale on disposable email addresses and AnonVPNs. The bundled deal allows consumers to pay what they want for a lifetime subscription to Nonkly, a disposable email service that lets users generate email addresses to give out to marketers instead of sharing their real address. The deal also includes a year's access to AnonVPN which allows users in geo-restricted areas to streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.

Novelty e-mail provider cock.li has had one of its hard drives seized after the platform was used to send a threatening email to Los Angeles area schools which led to the entire school district being shut for one day. The drive is located in a Bavarian data center and has been taken in by German authorities. "That means that SSL keys and private keys and full mail content of all 64,500 of my users, as well as hashed passwords, registration time, and the last seven days of logs were all confiscated and now are in the hands of German authorities," …

SanrioTown.com, the online community for Hello Kitty fans, has experienced a data breach which exposed the user data for 3.3 million accounts. Leaked information includes: the names, email addresses, birth dates, genders, and countries of origin for all of the users. Hackers also gained access to lightly-protected passwords, and forgotten password questions and answers.

Social network Pinterest has begun sending emails to users when an item that they have pinned has a price drop. The emails only apply to items that are available for sale. The emails highlight the products and encourage the users to buy the items directly from within the pin.

British telecom Vodafone has charged a customer more than GBP5,000 in data roaming fees after he checked an email at the airport while on vacation in Cape Town. Europe is banning roaming charges beginning in June 2017 and an interim cap will begin April 2016. The company has yet to adjust or remove the charge.

British newspaper The Telegraph has been fined GBP30,000 for sending emails to subscribers urging them to vote for the Conservative party. The paper attached a letter from Daily Telegraph editor Chris Evans to the newspaper's daily email. The Information Commissioner's Office issued a fine to Telegraph Media Group, the paper's parent company, for violating direct marketing rules.

Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton is pleading with supporters to contribute to her campaign. In the latest email sent out by her camp, the message is that Clinton could lose the nomination if supporters don't contribute. "I don't know how else to say it except by saying it: We could lose the nomination," reads the email. "The other candidates on that stage last night would like nothing more than for our team to sit back and relax right now, but I am not taking anything for granted. You can't either, I need your help."

The Bloomsbury Patient Network, a UK-based HIV support group, has been slapped with a GBP250 fine by the Information Commissioner's Office after exposing private patient data in an email blast. The email newsletter was sent out to 200 patients and instead of using the "bcc" field, the organization accidentally used the "to" field revealing the email addresses of the other patients.