Epsilon is working with federal authorities and outside forensics experts to investigate the marketing firm's recent e-mail address security breach, Epsilon parent company Alliance Data Systems Corp. said in a statement this week.
Approximately 2% percent of Epsilon's clients were affected by last week's breach, which involved an unauthorized entry into its e-mail system and the compromising of millions of clients' customer names and e-mail addresses, Alliance Data said.
Epsilon manages customer e-mail databases for more than 2,500 clients including large financial institutions and retailers.
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