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Epsilon Breach Used Four-month-old Attack

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the way-to-go-guys dept.

schliz writes "Marketing giant Epsilon knew that it was vulnerable to an attack for 'some months' before suffering a high-profile breach last week. According to Epsilon's technology partner ReturnPath, the breach was part of a series of socially engineered attacks discovered in November."

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  1. Vulnerable by haystor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Epsilon has always been vulnerable to attack by some smaller value of x.

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