Important Information for Disney Destinations Email Recipients? What's this about?

[Ted in Halifax]

Anyone else receive this e-mail from Disney Destinations?

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Dear Guest,

We have been informed by one of our email service providers, Epsilon,
that your email address was exposed by an unauthorized entry into that
provider's computer system. We use our email service providers to
help us manage the large number of email communications with our
guests. Our email service providers send emails on our behalf to
guests who have chosen to receive email communications from us.

We regret that this incident has occurred and any inconvenience this
incident may cause you. We take your privacy very seriously, and we
will continue to work diligently to protect your personal information.

We want to assure you that your email address was the only personal
information we have regarding you that was compromised in this
incident.

As a result of this incident, it is possible that you may receive spam
email messages, emails that contain links containing computer viruses
or other types of computer malware, or emails that seek to deceive you
into providing personal or credit card information. As a result, you
should be extremely cautious before opening links or attachments from
unknown third parties or providing a credit card number or other
sensitive information in response to any email.

If you have any questions regarding this incident, please contact us
at (407) 560-2547 during the hours of 9:00 am to 7:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Monday through Friday, and 9:00 am through 5:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Saturday and Sunday.

Sincerely,

Disney Destinations
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[Nahanni]

I did not receive this email. I do get periodic emails from Disney Destinations.

Hopefully, as they promise, it was only the email list that was compromised - we give a lot of detail to Disney when making reservations.

 

[ccudmore]

Epsilon, an e-mail service provider in the U.S. that is used by many companies was hacked and a large number of e-mail addresses were taken. No other information other than e-mail addresses were compromised.

Article at http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20050068-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

 

[BarleyJack]

I received the same email. Let's hope that's all they got.

 

[CAJS04]

Hmmm, I got it too. This is disappointing... I guess any body can get hacked.

 

[bobbiwoz]

It came to 2 of my e-mail accounts.

 

[You'vegotafriendinme]

received this email, too. Fingers crossed all is well.

 

[HeatherPage]

I received this, this morning as well. Think I'll reply back with "all will be forgiven if you throw some free annual passes our way"...

 

[MWGreene]

I received this, this morning as well. Think I'll reply back with "all will be forgiven if you throw some free annual passes our way"...

HAHA I read the whole thing hoping that there would be a free dining pin at the bottom. Oh well.

 

[waltdisneymama]

I also received this email this morning. (HeatherPage, I like your suggestion)

 

[Tantor]

I received this, this morning as well. Think I'll reply back with "all will be forgiven if you throw some free annual passes our way"...

I got it too.......to the quote above

 

[disneychristinec]

I received this too but how do we know that the only thing they got were emails. I paid for everything by credit card online thru Disney.
I agree they should compensate for the hacking and give free dining???

 

[RainbowsMist]

Me too

 

[ccudmore]

I received this too but how do we know that the only thing they got were emails. I paid for everything by credit card online thru Disney.
I agree they should compensate for the hacking and give free dining???

Disney didn't get hacked. A bulk email service that Disney uses, and who wouldnt have access to anything other than email addresses got hacked. The worst that could happen to you is you may get a few extra spam emails. Hardly something worthy of any type of compensation.

 

[peaceluv&mickeymouse]

Yes. Frustrating!

 

[aristocat65]

I received this email also, and later this evening received a similar one from Bestbuy. Makes me wonder how many other company's email lists were compromised.

 

[dis_guy]

I got the Disney Destinations one and now one from Abe Books.

 

[3pletprincesses]

yep got is from Disney and Best buy.

 

[dancin Disney style]

DH got it as well.

Funny, he gets all the Disney Destination emails....including every PIN they offer and I'm the one that books and pays for all the WDW trips.

 

[LeeLee'sMom]

Yep I got it too..would be nice to get some sort of "freebie"..