Email marketer at center of breach apologizes

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The company at the center of a data heist involving Best Buy, Citigroup, and other major brands said Wednesday that the theft of potentially millions of names and email addresses won't significantly slow its email marketing juggernaut.
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The company said that only 2 percent of its client base was affected and that its email volumes aren't expected to be significantly impacted. Epsilon said the incident should have "minimal if any impact" on Alliance Data's financial performance.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20110407/D9MEH1J80.html

It seems the title for the article should be "Our business and profit will not be affected, too bad about the phishing".

I used to work for a company that was bought by Epsilon. It has the world's largest consumer transactional database in the world. I had to ship a few hard drives to the FBI when they thought they were hacked. Junk mail...