Disney Destinations Email Today

[BrerGnat]

Got an email too...at my OLD address. I swear, no matter how many times I update my email address with Disney, they still don't fix it in their system. Oh well, at least they didn't get my "real" email address.

[WIMickeymommy]

HSN was hit too. Wonder who else I will hear from.

[sassafras]

Me, too! Not real thrilled about this.

[lindique]

I just read that Citibank and Chase are affected too. I sure hope my ISP has a good SPAM filter!!

[TheDuckRocks]

The past couple of days I have wondering why I've gotten so much Spam - email from Disney = mystery solved. Not happy but was glad that at this time it is only my email address. Remember a couple of years ago when all our information, if you were a Disney stockholder, was lost/stolened/mislayed/whatever, now that was a mess.

[faline]

Add me to the list of those notified by Disney Destinations.

[Bethanymouse]

Got one too

[PixieDreams27]

My e-mail this morning was blank, glad i found these posts. I would never have known

[RedSoxFan]

I got a blank email this morning as well.
But no more spam than usual which I don't open anyways.

[luvdiznee]

Got the blank one at one email address. Then the letter at another em address.

[Melanie]

Wonder what's up with the blank ones people are getting?

[Ian]

I got it, too.

One more here. I can only imagine how many other services don't report it like Disney has here.

Corporations are required by law to report any breach of their customer's personal information, so it's unlikely that any reputable company who had a breach wouldn't report it.

I'm not happy about it. Too many things can happen anymore with hacking, stealing one's identity.

Well in the case of this particular incident, the only information that was compromised was your email address. That information is pretty readily available anyway, so it's not really that big a deal. You'll probably see a bit more spam and some phishing activity, but if you're properly protecting yourself you won't really be at any additional risk.

Wonder what's up with the blank ones people are getting?

Yeah, that is strange because it was just a plain text email. It wasn't HTML or anything, so it shouldn't get blocked.

[MississippiDisneyFreak]

Yep, I got it too

[Emme&TeddysMommy]

I also got it!

[WDWFanatic]

I got the blank one this morning, one this afternoon with an offer to book a trip...seemed a little off, and then just another one with the letter at the top of this string...

Are they all spam? I hope they get this fixed pronto!

[hoop de do]

I got it also. I just hope it is only the email.

I haven't noticed anything yet. I'll let you all know if anything else occurs.

[elmjimmlm]

I got the same one and also from US Bank...

[KylesMom]

I got an e-mail from both Disney and Best Buy for their Rewards program . . .

[c&d]

Also got one from Ameriprise Financial.

[brownie]

Corporations are required by law to report any breach of their customer's personal information, so it's unlikely that any reputable company who had a breach wouldn't report it.

It depends on the state and the information. There's not a national data breach notification law (yet) and not all states have a notification law. Companies may have privacy policies that require them to report breaches (the FTC can enforce privacy policies, so if a company's privacy policy says they will notify and they don't, the FTC can hold them to that.) HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requires a notification of a breach of protected health information for covered entities, and the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) act works along with this. GLB (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) requires a notification for covered organizations (mostly financial organizations.)
GLB, HIPAA, and HITECH do not cover all organizations, however.