> I'm not quite sure what's going on and why someone would do this I read somewhere (here on HN?) that hackers would do this when stealing your credit card in

> I'm not quite sure what's going on and why someone would do this I read somewhere (here on HN?) that hackers would do this when stealing your credit card info and using it to make a purchase. Like, they didn't break into your email account, so their best bet for making the purchase is you not seeing the order confirmation email. So they flood you with a ton of crap newsletters. (Otherwise if they had access to your account, they'd just delete that order confirmation email) It's not quite clear why they would need to associate the purchase with your real account - maybe they took control of one of your accounts where your payment method is saved. But be on lookout for weird charges