Many customers of Play.com, on March 22, 2011, got spam mails purporting to be from the Jersey-situated Internet retailer, thus published Theregister.co.uk in news on March 22, 2011.
The spam sites, reportedly in a big number led onto Black-Hat SEO manipulated web-domains, which pushed malicious software. Consequently, users complained via Internet forums while ideas flashed that either someone compromised Play.com or seized the list of e-mail addresses with the retailer.
Moreover, targeted recipients of the spam mails were certain that there was malware on Play.com that generated e-mails since they utilized an e-mail id that was unique while accessing the website.
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