SC Magazine
The so-called dark web vendor SunTzu583, which was discovered selling over one million Gmail and Yahoo accounts along with their decrypted passwords, is now selling tens of millions more, according to news reports.
Bloomberg
Igor Sushchin, one of two alleged Russian intelligence officers charged by the U.S. with hacking a half-billion Yahoo! Inc. email accounts, worked for billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's investment bank until last week, Bloomberg reports.
Think Progress
The White House last week launched an email newsletter called Your 1600 Daily--with one wrinkle.
Dallas News
The U.S. Postal Service has introduced a service called Informed Delivery, through which photos of postal mail can be sent to consumers by email.
BuzzFeed
Tens of thousands of Saks Fifth Ave. customers have had their personal information exposed in plain text form, BuzzFeed reports.
The Verge
Google is now inviting desktop Gmail users to stream video in emails, rather than having to first download files. As The Verge notes: “Video attachments can still be downloaded, but clicking on a file will now pull up a YouTube-style video player that’ll let you play the clip back, adjust quality and sound levels, and even stream it to a Chromecast device.”
Forbes
Digital marketers now implement multi-touch, personalized email to squeeze lifetime value from customers.
Mar Tech Advisor
Roughly $365 million has been invested in e-mail centric companies over the past few years. And it's a growing field.
Business2Community.com
Marketers who have run out of holidays to exploit should try "newsjacking," or hijacking the news, in their emails. This will grab attention.
Fortune
A federal judge has rejected a proposed legal settlement that would have resulted in $2.2 million being paid to lawyers, but nothing to consumers who had the contents of their email scanned by Google without their permission, Fortune reports.