Got it at 1:15 PM; message content made me suspicious.
Searched Twitter: people with subscriptions were getting it, but also people who'd never subscribed, and people who'd used throwaway email addresses to subscribe (e.g. username+nytimes@example.org).
1:49 @NYTimesComm: "A spam message was sent broadly today with the subject 'Important information regarding your subscription.' This email was not sent from The New York Times. If you received it, please delete it."
At 2:02 PM, @NYTimes: "If you received an email today about canceling your NYT subscription, ignore it. It's not from us."
Headers indicate it was sent through Epsilon, the email service provider that was hacked in a widely publicized incident last spring.
The Times' denial that the email was sent from the Times would lead me to believe there was some kind of error (or another breach) at Epsilon.
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[ 16.8 ms ] story [ 378 ms ] threadSearched Twitter: people with subscriptions were getting it, but also people who'd never subscribed, and people who'd used throwaway email addresses to subscribe (e.g. username+nytimes@example.org).
1:49 @NYTimesComm: "A spam message was sent broadly today with the subject 'Important information regarding your subscription.' This email was not sent from The New York Times. If you received it, please delete it."
At 2:02 PM, @NYTimes: "If you received an email today about canceling your NYT subscription, ignore it. It's not from us."
Headers indicate it was sent through Epsilon, the email service provider that was hacked in a widely publicized incident last spring.
The Times' denial that the email was sent from the Times would lead me to believe there was some kind of error (or another breach) at Epsilon.