Notification from College Board

Paying for College
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<p>Received an email from College Board last night:</p>

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We have been informed by Epsilon, the vendor that sends email to you on our behalf, that your e-mail address may have been exposed by unauthorized entry into their system.</p>

<p>Epsilon has assured us that the only information that may have been obtained was your first and last name and e-mail address. REST ASSURED THAT THIS VENDOR DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO OTHER MORE SENSITIVE INFORMATION SUCH AS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR CREDIT CARD DATA.

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<p>I hope so.</p>

<p>grrrrrr</p>

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<p>I got that too. ?</p>

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<p>I got that email today from a credit card company that also uses Epsilon, but not from the CollegeBoard… interesting.</p>

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<p>I got the same email from CB, Kroegers, and TIVO ?
What the heck? I have been getting tons of spam mail too :(</p>

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<p>Seems legit. [Bank</a> Customers Warned After Breach at Epsilon Marketing Firm - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110402/tc_pcworld/bankcustomerswarnedafterbreachatepsilonmarketingfirm_1]Bank”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110402/tc_pcworld/bankcustomerswarnedafterbreachatepsilonmarketingfirm_1)</p>

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<p>Any chance the target was College Board and the rest were just collateral damage?</p>

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<p>I too got the email. I wonder why they have to collect our full SSN and not just the last 4 digits.</p>

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<p>I got this also. I heard it on the news, too. JC Penney was another target. I would think that CB would not necessarily be the main target, although the type of people who are smart enough to be hackers might be the kind of people who might try to manipulate board scores, so maybe it was.</p>

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<p>:O I got it too!!! oh no…</p>

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<p>I received that email, and a similar one from Hewlett Packard.</p>

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<p>Gee, and collegeboard runs the CSS program with all of our 1040 info, W2s and SSNs and bank Routing numbers (If you didnt black that out on page 2 of your 1040). Of course, they say its all safe :slight_smile: Hmmm… makes you wonder. There is no sanction against companies that lose your data other than voting with your feet (which for collegeboard is difficult) or a class action lawsuit, I guess.</p>

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<p>I just got another one from Abe Books.</p>

<p>I think Epsilon is only used for email marketing, which is why they are all saying our financial data was not among what was compromised.</p>

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<p>I dont know if I should be worried about this :/</p>