An employee at the payday lending company Moneytree has fallen for the CEO email scam, exposing the personal data of employees. The latest wave in spam attacks targets the employees of companies and sends emails that look like they are coming from the CEO. The email asked the recipient to share payroll information which includes employee names, home addresses, social security numbers, birthdates and W2 information.

Yahoo has agreed to stop tracking the emails of people who sent emails to Yahoo Mail users until the data is on the Yahoo server. A U.S. District Court judge gave a preliminary approval to the settlement between Yahoo and four people who filed the class action suit. The plaintiffs, who were not Yahoo Mail customers, claimed that Yahoo violated their privacy by scanning their emails when they wrote to people with Yahoo Mail addresses.

WikiLeaks has made Hillary Clinton's public emails searchable. The database includes 30,322 emails and attachments from Clinton's private server sent between June 2010 and August 2014. This includes 7,570 emails sent by Clinton. The database uses emails released by the State Department as part of the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

A Pennsylvania man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the email accounts and the stealing personal photos of several female celebrities. Ryan Collins has been accused of breaking into more than 100 Google and Apple accounts between November 2012 and September 2014. He was able to access these accounts by duping the victims into phishing scams that gave him access to their login information.

The emails of former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg have not been made public. Thenyc.gov emails to and from the mayor and staffers were archived and turned over to the city's law department. The department is in the process of archiving this trove of more than 10 million emails. However, according to The New York Daily News, most of the emails that Bloomberg sent while in office for 12 years were sent from his his personal Bloomberg.net account.

Google is bringing Smart Reply to the desktop. This email tool, which was first available in the mobile version of Inbox, allows users to reply quickly to emails using automated responses. The tool reads emails and uses AI to determine a natural-language response to emails that require simply replies such "thank you."

Some email marketers like to use email preference centers in order to give consumers control. The idea is that subscribers are more likely to stay on your list if they can set the frequency and type of content that they receive. Yet these tools can be expensive to maintain and may not be worth it if customers don't use these tools. In this case, marketers may be better off just using personalization data to try to tailor these messages for their customers.

IT security firm ESET has warned that they have seen an increase in spam emails containing ransomware. These emails include a malicious attachment, which, if activated, downloads and installs ransomware onto a user's device. This new virus has been going around across the globe and has been seen in its Europe, North America, Australia and Japan.

Taiwanese company Synology has released a new Android app for email security called MailPlus. The service, which is independently hosted from a customer's Synology-branded NAS hardware, allowing users to read and send encrypted email through the app or through a webmail platform.

Microsoft now allows its Outlook app users to use Touch ID to access their email and calendar. This is a new level of security for email apps. The reboot comes after Microsoft acquired Acompli last year. Since then the Redmond-based giant has been adding new features including support for multiple email accounts and cloud storage services, swipe options and Skype integration.