ABC News
A number of employees from the grocery store Sprouts workers may have had their personal information exposed after an employee for the company responded to a spam email. The payroll department employee got an email which she thought came from a company senior executive. However, the executive's account had been spoofed. The employee responded by sending the 2015 W-2 statements of all Sprouts workers. The FBI and IRS are investigating the scam.
The Hill
The Department of Defense (DOD) restricted access to private email on its servers for two days last week as part of "an ongoing investigation into multiple spoofed emails and potential ransomware infections occurring across DOD." According to a spokesman, the shutdown was done to ensure that the network stayed secure.
ABC News
Legal experts don't expect Hillary Clinton to be indicted over her use of a private email account while she was serving as Secretary of State. In an interview with the Associate Press, several experts suggested that the few laws that govern how classified documents are handled mostly cover spying, stealing and leaking data. These lawyers suggest that it may be a stretch to apply existing statutes to what Clinton did.
Royal Caribbean is introducing a new email list to its travel partners. Each week, the cruise line will send an email list to its travel partners. The list includes the names of clients that are eligible for a reduced-rate upgrade on an upcoming cruise.
eTurboNews
Aer Lingus and easyJet sent emails every three days to customers that had booked a flight during December 2015, according to a new report from IdeaWorksCompany. The company analyzed the email marketing of six airlines after booking a flight during the busy travel month. They found that AirAsia sent only three post-booking emails. Ryanair sent the least emails and had the lowest average word count at 222 words per email.
The Times of India
The CEO of e-commerce site Flipkart has had his email account hacked. Binny Bansal reported that two e-mails were sent from the account to Flipkart's CFO asking him to transfer $80,000. Investigators said that the emails came from Hong Kong and Canada using a server in Russia.
The Houston Chronicle
George Clooney has endorsed Hillary Clinton in a new email campaign. In the email from Clinton's camp, Clooney says that he feels former Secretary of State Clinton is the only candidate to move the country forward. "If you listen to the loudest voices out there today, you'd think we're a country that hates Mexicans, hates Muslims, and thinks that committing war crimes is the best way to make America great again," reads the email. "The truth is that the only thing that would prevent America from being great would be to empower these voices."
New York Magazine
Tyra Banks has deleted email from her phone. The supermodel told audiences at Marie Claire's Power Trip conference in San Francisco that maternity leave has made her simplify her digital life. Nowadays she only uses texts and Facebook.
DazeInfo
Thirty-three percent of emails are opened on Apple's iPhone, followed by 15 percent of emails which were opened in Gmail and 12 percent opened on Apple's iPad, according to Litmus Software. The email marketing analytics firm captured data from 13 billion email opens and found that 10 percent of emails were opened Google Android devices, 8 percent were opened in Apple Mail, 6 percent were opened in Outlook and 3 percent were opened in Yahoo Mail.
Al Arabiya
WikiLeaks has accused Facebook of blocking its archive of Hillary Clinton's State Department emails. The site recently posted the 30,322 emails and attachments sent to and from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on its site and made them searchable. "Dear @Facebook: stop censoring our Hillary Clinton email release. No, really. Stop it. There is no technical excuse," WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter.