Walmart "appalled" by racist slur emailed from its servers
CBSN
Walmart is faulting an "external bad actor" for a slew of phony accounts that generated emails using the company's domain that addressed recipients with a racial epitaph.
Those behind the attack created new accounts for people whose emails were not previously identified by the company as belonging to Walmart customers, automatically sending a "Welcome to Walmart" email that replaced the receiver's name with a racist smear. The company's internal systems were not breached, and the retailer said it was able to stop more of the emails from being sent. Walmart declined to state how many of the offensive emails were delivered.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.