Mailgun Explained

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Mailgun Technologies Inc is an email delivery service for sending, receiving, and tracking emails.

History

Mailgun Technologies Inc was founded in 2010 by Ev Kontsevoy and Taylor Wakefield.[1] In 2011, Mailgun Technologies, Inc. was selected for Y Combinator's 2011 class, facilitating the company’s product and growth with early funding from the creators of Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and others.[2]

Mailgun Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Rackspace in 2012[3] and in 2013, Mailgun launched their first email validations product.[4]

In 2017, Mailgun Technologies Inc became an independent company, leaving Rackspace with $50M in growth capital from Turn/River Capital with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace.[5] [6] Mailgun was acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2019.[7] In December 2019, Mailgun acquired their European competitor Mailjet.[8] [9] In January 2021, Mailgun became a Pathwire brand alongside Mailjet[10] and their validations services.[10] The Pathwire family of brands was shortly thereafter owned by the Swedish company Sinch in September of 2021. [11]

In 2020, Will Conway, CEO of Mailgun, was one of the two Central Texas finalists for Ernst & Young's yearly Entrepreneur of the Year award.[12]

Cybersecurity

According to ZDNET, in 2019 Mailgun's website was attacked along with other WordPress sites, and used as a redirect to malicious sites. Mailgun resolved the issue within two hours.[13] [14]

In 2021, Alexei Navalny, a member of opposition in Russia, was a victim of a cyber-attack that has resulted in email addresses of his members of mailing list being leaked. While the messages were delivered via Mailgun, Mailgun was not at fault for the leak, according to the report,[15] [16] with further investigation by the Russian Anti-Corruption Foundation confirming that the group leaked their API key leading to the attacker accessing the Mailgun account to download the data.[17] [18]

In 2021, one of Mailgun's customers, US-based Chipotle Mexican Grill, was compromised to send 120 spam messages in three days, and Mailgun prevented unauthorized access and launched an investigation in the account.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Email startup that helps businesses stay out of the spam folder spins out of Rackspace in $50M deal. San Antonio Business Journal. 2017-02-22. Kristen Mosbrucker.
  2. Web site: Mailgun: Email API service.. Y Combinator.
  3. Web site: Rackspace to Acquire Mailgun for Easy Integration of Cloud-Based Email Services Into Applications & Websites . Rackspace Technology.
  4. Web site: Today in APIs: Mailgun Email Validation API, Cloudmade's Authorization API, and 12 New APIs. 2013-07-29. ProgrammableWeb.
  5. Web site: Email delivery service Mailgun spins out of Rackspace and raises $50M. 2021-09-16. TechCrunch. 2017-02-22.
  6. Web site: 2017-02-22. Xconomy: Rackspace Spinout Mailgun Raises $50M for API-Focused E-mail Service. 2021-09-16. Xconomy.
  7. Web site: Mailgun changes hands again as Thoma Bravo buys majority stake. Ron. Miller. www.thomabravo.com. 2021-09-16. 2021-09-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20210916204151/https://www.thomabravo.com/news-awards/techcrunch-mailgun-changes-hands-again-as-thoma-bravo-buys-majority-stake. dead. TechCrunch.
  8. Web site: FinSMEs. 2019-10-22. Mailgun Buys Mailjet. 2021-09-16. FinSMEs.
  9. Web site: Mailgun acquires email marketing rival Mailjet . 2021-09-16. Mobile Marketing Magazine.
  10. Web site: New parent company formed by Mailgun. San Antonio Business Journal. 2021-02-02. Jeannette E. Garcia.
  11. Web site: Sinch acquires Pathwire, the company behind Mailgun and Mailjet, for $1.9B to add email into its API-based communications platform . 2021-09-30.
  12. Web site: Executive Q&A: Mailgun CEO on being an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. 2021-09-16. San Antonio Business Journal.
  13. Web site: Cimpanu. Catalin. Mailgun hacked part of massive attack on WordPress sites. 2021-09-16. ZDNet.
  14. Web site: 2019-04-11. Hackers exploit vulnerability in WordPress related-posts plugin. 2021-09-16. SiliconANGLE.
  15. Web site: Unpleasant emails Team Navalny apologizes after database of email addresses registered for planned protest leaks online. 2021-09-16. Meduza.
  16. Web site: 2021-04-17. Сервис Mailgun не нашел признаков уязвимости платформы после утечки контактов сторонников Навального. 2021-09-16. Новая газета. ru.
  17. Web site: ФБК назвал человека, укравшего базу данных с сайта "Свободу Навальному!" По мнению соратников Алексея Навального, это бывший сотрудник фонда Федор Горожанко. 2021-09-16. Meduza. ru.
  18. Web site: Команда Навального сделала заявление о сообщениях про утечки базы "Умного голосования". 2021-09-16. www.znak.com.
  19. Web site: July 2021. Anthony Spadafora 30. 2021-07-30. Chipotle email marketing hacked to send phishing emails. 2021-09-16. TechRadar.

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