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I've been doing exactly this for a while. Here is my list of companies that have leaked the email address I gave them to spammers: https://gist.github.com/eligr
by Sephr 10y ago
I've been doing exactly this for a while. Here is my list of companies that have leaked the email address I gave them to spammers: https://gist.github.com/eligrey/5084991 https://gist.github.com/eligrey/5084991
- mehrdadn 10y agoNote that (I think) Adobe was hacked, so that doesn't mean your email was "leaked" by them per se, not in the sense we mean anyway. Also, out of curiosity, how long did it take these companies to leak your info, generally? Days, weeks, months, years...?
- Sunset 10y agoDropbox was hacked as well.
- lucb1e 10y agoAwesome work! I do the same with email addresses, but receive very little spam. Mostly I block addresses that start spamming me with newsletters. I've thought about keeping a list, but most companies actually stick to the Dutch anti-spam laws (which are quite good). Only Dropbox and one personal contact ever actually sold/leaked my email address, and Paypal of course but they hand my email address out to all merchants so they're almost certainly not to blame themselves (not beyond the fact that they hand it out in the first place).