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> Signed up for a famous freemium file-syncing service whose name also starts with "D" using a custom email address, never used for anything else; that ended up
by Jaruzel 10y ago
> Signed up for a famous freemium file-syncing service whose name also starts with "D" using a custom email address, never used for anything else; that ended up in the hands of spammers.
Wasn't just me then. I /know/ I never used that particular address for anything else as it was specific to the D___Box service. Yet within 2 months, started getting lots of spam on it. I don't recall that company getting data breached, so totally unclear how that happened.
- alanh 10y agoI’ve been working on the assumption that a massive breach did happen, but was never announced (perhaps not even discovered internally).