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0 pointsfarnsworth9y ago0 comments

Why not name names? Let's name and shame companies that are either selling your info or hiding breaches.

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Macha9y ago

So in my inbox currently:

* dbox@mydomain.com (Dropbox) - first received spam two years ago.

* (Greenheart Games/Game Dev Tycoon) - highest quatity of spam after contact/info/admin

Although I just checked and the Greenheart Games address is in a mod's package.json so probably not their fault

kalleboo9y ago

I got spam to a email registered with Microsoft.

A company I worked for got its email list leaked when the email service they used was breached. The email service posted a "we're investigating" in a blog post on a blog that was soon mysteriously deprecated/taken down.

jasonkostempski9y ago

Microsoft sells the shit out of your email address. If you sign up for Dev Essentials you can't even opt out of emails from "partners" unless you leave the Dev Essentials program (and I'm sure leaving it wouldn't actually stop the emails). The only spam I get at my work email (with spam filtering turned off) is tied to that program.

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