Earlier this week, Bell confirmed that email addresses belonging to approximately 1.9 million customers and 1,700 phone numbers and names had been stolen by "an anonymous hacker." But there's still a lot that can be done with the email addresses that were obtained, mostly by spammers and those who run phishing schemes. 60 per cent of the email addresses contained in the Bell breach were new. That means enterprising spammers and phishing attackers potentially have over one million new email addresses at their disposal. Not much, unfortunately, now that that files containing the email addresses are available online.

Source: CBC News May 17, 2017 09:00 UTC