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SEGA's Newsletter Provider Sends Security to the Top of the Agenda
· New York time
SEGA says a breach at its third-party newsletter provider, ARARA, exposed the email addresses of 2.2 million subscribers. The incident puts attention on the service that handles a mailing list, not just the company whose news people signed up to receive. Outsourcing delivery does not make subscriber information less important to the people on the list. A newsletter is meant to bring updates into an inbox, while the provider holds the addresses needed to send them. SEGA subscribers got a reminder that distribution infrastructure needs protection too, although it was not the update they had hoped to receive.
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