On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]>wrote:

> The discussion you referenced is dated seven months ago.  In the last 7
> months, they have had plenty of time to get their act straight.  If they
> didn't do it yet, I don't believe they will ever be successful.  Not
> because
> they don't care, but because they just don't know how.   It represents a
> lot
> of work, to clean their systems, or they don't know how or which systems
> need to be cleaned.
>

It's not Box.net systems, it's the systems of the email marketing
companies. The same is likely true for the bank you got spam from, Epsilon
[1] was hacked in April, millions of emails addresses were stolen, that
resulted in customers of major financial institutions like Citigroup
getting spam.

Most companies use third-party services for their email marketing or
automated email, services like Epsilon, VerticalResponse, MailChimp, and
Mailgun. It's not fair to blame a company because their email marketing
company was hacked.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/03/epsilon-hack_n_844212.html

-Anton
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