Walmart investigating offensive emails sent from its domain

The company is ‘shocked and appalled’ by the messages and is ‘looking to hold those responsible accountable’, a Walmart spokeswoman said. — Bloomberg

Walmart Inc is investigating messages that included a racist slur sent from its email servers.

Twitter users have reported receiving emails containing a slur instead of their name from the email address “[e-mail]”. The perpetrator or perpetrators created new accounts for people whose email addresses were not previously associated with a Walmart customer, but replaced the person’s name with the slur. That generated an automated account-creation email from Walmart.