B-to-b services firm Spark is moving its Xtra email service to New Zealand-owned email provider SMX. Clients using @xtra.co.nz email addresses must giveSpark permission to move their data to the new platform. The transfer is expected to take three months and will be done by January 2017. Email addresses can remain the same.

Forty-nine percent of average consumers used their smart devices to open emails in 2015 and this trend is expected to grow this year, according to Litmus. Their recent research also revealed that 41 percent of marketers switched to responsive design in 2015, and that number will increase to 60 percent by the end of 2016.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who was quick to criticize Hillary Clinton's email usage, may have to face his own email scandal. New Jersey attorney Samuel Samaro, who represented North Jersey Media Group in a Open Public Records Act lawsuit, has suggested that Christie used his own email system to conduct public business.

Shaun King, an activist and senior writer for the New York Daily News, was temporarily kicked off of Facebook for sharing an email in which someone referred to him with the N word. The technology had flagged the word, and blocked him for the site for breaking community standards. Facebook revoked the ban and called it a mistake.

The CFO of Leoni AG, one of the world's largest manufacturers of electrical cables, was duped out of almost $40million of company funds after he fell for a spam email. The email was targeted specifically at the executive and looked as though he was to make a payment to a supplier. CEO scams are hurting more and more companies globally.

Between 2003 and 2009, during George Bush's presidency, the White House reportedly lost 22 million emails. This included millions of emails written about the Iraq war, as well as when the administration fired U.S. attorneys for political reasons.

Email has a median ROI of 122 percent, 4x higher than other channels such as social media, direct mail and paid search, according to a new survey by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and Demand Metric. The research also revealed that 80 percent of agencies think that email marketing is effective and 73 percent of in-house marketers concur.

Keen, a security expert that recently uncovered a data breach for the porn site Brazzers on Vigilante.pw, a site that helps reveal data breaches, says that he made the hack public to build awareness. The stolen database is just one of many that he has on file.

Data storage firm Seagate is being sued by its own employees after private employee data was exposed when an employee fell for a phishing scam. The electronics maker has been accused of malpractice and negligent handling of data, which put its employees at risk. The company fell victim to a phishing scam back in March and mistakenly handed over W2 forms to scammers posing as the IRS.

Threatening emails that caused Virginia Tech to shut down briefly last month originated in South America. Virginia Tech's campus police department issued a statement about the event revealing that federal and foreign authorities are now investigating the threat. After the school received threatening emails on August 29, the campus was shut down for a day.