The Federal Trade Commission has charged Tachht, Inc. and Teqqi, LLC with sending illegal spam emails that pushed questionable weight-loss products with false celebrity endorsements. The complaint alleges that since 2014, the marketing firm paid to send emails to consumers from hacked email accounts in order to make it seem as though the emails were coming from the recipients' friends and families.

Nudgemail is a freemium tool that lets helps users ensure they don't miss important emails. The app allows users to hit snooze on emails and have them appear at a more opportune time. However, unlike other snooze apps which make the message disappear, this tool stays in the inbox and the user gets follow up emails reminding them to read the message or do the task at hand.

Hiri is a new startup that hopes to keep workers from being burdened with email. The idea behind the Dublin-based company's product is to make emails more targeted so that professionals don't have to unproductively spend hours responding to unnecessary email. The tool allows recipients to rate each email they receive to give senders scores. Senders can use these scores to hone in on which emails are relevant and which are superfluous.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while leading the State Department on Face the Nation this past weekend. He suggested that Clinton is guilty of a crime and should be prosecuted for her actions. Clinton contends that she used poor judgement but didn't break the law.

The Associated Press and CNN have reported that Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic nomination with enough delegates to take her to the convention. However, with a number of major primaries taking place today, Clinton has even careful not to accept the nomination. Her marketing team however hinted at the win with a marketing email today. The fundraising email points out that the race isn't quite over and urges supporters to "have her back." The photos in the email are labeled "secret win."

A hacker going by the name Peace_of_mind claims to have the passwords login data for more than 100 million users from Russian social network VK.com. The hacker is selling the data for 1 bitcoin, about $570, on the dark web. A number of consumer data files have been for sale on the dark web recently, some of which have been proven to be fake.

Data breaches are on the rise this year and most come from human error according to a new report from Egress Software Technologies. The report revealed a 66 percent of the business sectors surveyed saw an increase in data breaches. Insurance firms saw attacks increase by 317 percent, general businesses saw a 157 percent increate and law offices saw a 127 percent increase.

Romanian startup EvoWise has introduced a new email marketing service called StreamingMail. The company is offering the tool for free for the next 90 days for clients with databases less than 5,000 who send up to 30,000 emails a month. The service will also be available for a subscription fee depending on scope which will range from $30-1000 a month.

Dormify, an e-commerce site that sells affordable dorm decor to college students, has seen a 92 percent increase in revenue from email marketing and has doubled its web conversion rate. The company spent a year testing and tweaking of 18 metrics including: personalization, frequency, tone and overall strategy in order to optimize its email.

At least 10,000 Australians have received spam emails that take computers hostage when opened this week, according to security analysts. The email looks like it is coming from the energy company AGL and includes a fake bill with an attachment. If a users follows the prompts and downloads a file, then their computer is locked down and they must pay $640 ransomware to unlock it.