A Russian hacker gained access to the email account of a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office investigator named Mark Lewis. The hacker, who goes by the name of BadVolf, had boasted about the attack online claiming that he exposed proof that the law enforcement office was surveilling local journalists. Gawker was able to obtain the email exchanges to prove the legitimacy of the claim.

Pennsylvania attorney general used a personal email account to conduct official business, despite rules against this practice. Kathleen Kane exchanged around 4,000 work-related emails on her AOL and Yahoo email accounts from January 2013 until August 2015, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

It took a while for the 92 year old denim magnate Gloria Vanderbilt to learn how to use email. In the latest HBO documentary, Nothing Left Unsaid, about the socialite and her family, viewers learn that it took a while for this woman from another era to learn the ways of the Internet. Her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, revealed that he didn't have the patience to teach her and opted to have a friend help out.

Using an emoji in a marketing email is a good idea if you are targeting British consumers. This audience is 63 percent more likely to open an email that has an emoticon in the subject line. The figure increased to 95 percent for emails that juxtaposed emoticons with sarcasm.

Luxury marketers lag behind others when it comes to email marketers, according to a new study from ContactLab. While these marketers are good at localizing their message via email, they lack e-commerce and cross channel integration, the study found. The research did note that among luxury retailers, Cartier and Burberry led the field in terms of email proficiency and strategy.

Almost 40 percent of millennials report waking up to check email, according to a survey from Samanage. The research also revealed that 35 percent of those surveyed check email at least one hour a day outside of work hours. In addition, the research revealed that 19 percent noted that they wake up to check work email very often, and 23 percent often check email during dinner.

Google’s Inbox email client can now keep track of users’ calendar-related emails in one place. “For instance, if a colleague sends you an invite to an event, you can view all related emails and changes in one place,” The Next Web notes. “That could save you several minutes of digging through your emails to find an old message.”

Mid-sized companies that are migrating to using cloud-based email services prefer hiring an expert to help, according to a new report from Intermedia. The IaaS Outlook: Managing and Migrating Business Applications in the Cloud survey found that 90 percent of IT managers for mid-sized organizations that don't currently have email in the cloud are interested in using platforms such as Amazon Web Services managed by an outside technology provider.

Google has rolled out a new feature for Gmail that will give users more control over their inboxes. The feature makes it easier to preview email newsletters before they open them. "It's now easier to preview the newsletters you read often and click through to the articles that interest you most," Google software engineer Pras Sarkar wrote in a blog post explaining the update.

British telecomm BT forwarded the outgoing email from its customers' accounts into one user's email address. Many customers noticed that their emails were being returned with error messages explaining that they couldn't be delivered to stevewebb2@btinternet.com. Yet no one had sent Steve Webb an email. BT explained that the issue stemmed from a test that went wrong.