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Like a lot of the music and film buying members of the UK public I am a regular user of Play.com.

On Tuesday morning I got an email from them entitled "Email Security Message" which basically said that a company that it deals with had a security breach and watch out for suspicious email, which you can send to them at privacy@play.com.

OK fine, I thought, but I'd already had a spam email the day before telling me that Adobe X, i.e. 10, was available and to click here (???) to download. Luckily for me I'd seen the same type of bogus email before because it was sent to me at my workplace two to three months earlier.

Anyway, when deleting this bogus Adobe X email I was thinking "How did they get my home email?"

Now I know after reading the following story:

BBC News - Play.com warns of customer e-mail security breach

It seems that the security breach happened at "Silverpop" last year but Play.com kept it secret until bogus emails started to bombard its regular customers.

The question that now bugs me is why didn't Play.com inform it's customers earlier that their email addresses had been compromised instead of waiting for malware loaded spam to appear?



UK Bob