{"id":5937,"date":"2021-05-25T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:09:59","slug":"walmart-blocks-emails-with-racist-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/walmart-blocks-emails-with-racist-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Blocks Emails With Racist Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a public outcry on social media, Walmart announced on Monday that it had blocked emails containing racist slurs from its domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company noted that a &#8220;bad actor&#8221; created the fake Walmart accounts using people&#8217;s real email addresses while circumventing its automated response by changing first names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Walmart revealed that the &#8216;bad actor&#8217; behind the act was acting with apparent intent to offend the company&#8217;s customers, the company found that its systems were not hacked and no customer data was compromised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the company said it did not know the number of fake accounts created, a Walmart spokeswoman said that Walmart was exploring all available means to hold those responsible accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-walmart-email\/walmart-blocks-emails-containing-racial-slur-from-being-sent-through-its-domain-idUSKCN2D51ZW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart says &#8216;bad actor&#8217; is responsible for emails sent with racial slurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}