This post has been updated.
New York Times readers got a shock this afternoon when they received an e-mail that said their home delivery subscriptions had been canceled.
But Times representatives today said the e-mail was sent in error. Times corporate media reporter Amy Chozick writes that the e-mail should have reached just 300 people but went to more than 8 million. Eileen Murphy, vice president of Corporate Communications, said in an e-mail that no Times readers had their personal information hacked or compromised.
An image of the e-mail is pasted below:
A call to the phone number in the e-mail provides the following recording:
“Thank you for calling the New York Times. Due to high volume, your call can not be completed at this time.”
The recording also gives a e-mail address that is actually a phone number.
The Times originally said the e-mail was spam and not sent out by the newspaper:
Read more information at the Times Media Decoder blog.
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