Share Your Ideas with Verizon

[#1]

Verizon recently notified us that the security of our e-Mail address was violated, through their  arrangement with Epsilon. The message included guidance on how to protect ourselves from what was a Verizon screw-up, with no indication of what was being done. 

They seemed to pass the blame on Epsilon, but we never dealt with Epsilon. We hold Verizon responsible, since Epsilon was acting on Verizon's behalf. The message said nothing about corrective action.

[#2]

Guess what, I got the same message from Chase Bank!  It is my understanding that a number of companies were affected by this as well, even Disney.  Although you hold Verizon responsible, you do realize that if you read the terms of service "fine print" with any company, especially banks and credit card companies they let you know they use third parties to handle certain aspects of marketing.  Otherwise their would be no need for marketing companies if each company handled its own. 

So someone got your e-mail address.

1) Its not as if your e-mail address was entirely private, once you gave it to anyone, the spam started rolling in.

2) Why does anyone use Verizon's e-mail anyway, when there are much better alternatives

3) The only corrective action would be for you to change your e-mail address, what else would you expect them to do? 

[#3]

It's not Verizon's fault. Epsilon is also being used by Citibank and they informed all of their customers of the breach also.

It really is Epsilon's fault.