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Capital One Breach Exposes Personal Data on 100 Million U.S. Consumers

Financial services company Capital One revealed a data breach affecting 100 million U.S. consumers who had applied for credit, plus six million Canadians. In a classic look on the bright side, the company highlighted extra encryption that protected most social security numbers and account numbers. It did mention that exposed data included “names, addresses, postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income” and “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information, fragments of transaction data from 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018, and about 140,000 social security numbers” as well as one million Canadian social insurance numbers.

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Quotient Technology Offers Ad Audiences Based on Retail Coupons and Purchases

August 1, 2019

Quotient Technology manages a promotion network that it says accounts for 75% of all consumer packaged goods digital coupon activations. They’ve just launched a service to build digital ad audiences based on their data, which also includes purchase history on over 100 million consumers. Ads will be delivered through web sites, mobile apps, social media, smart TVs, and other digital channels.

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Martech Spending Grows as Percentage of Marketing Budget: CMO Survey

April 26, 2024

Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.

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