[pfarrell]

I was a lead engineer at one of the larger email service providers when that attack started. I wasn't at Epsilon, but I did have all my projects put on the backburner and teplaced by two-factor auth, fraud detection etc. that incident helped shape my career (even if it has thrown it totally off track). It is awful to immediately face the full brunt of spear phishing attacks on your business. It suddenly makes you value those security and IT practices that are easy to set aside in the name of moving forward with the product. I didn't have nearly your level of commitment to the company, but I cared about it and didn't want to see us lose the reputation we had worked so hard to gain disappear in a public incident.

Happy to hear MailChimp is investing in data protection. You can bet Ill be enabling it. Keep up the great work.