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Have you ever caught a marketing or spam email sent using one of your email aliases? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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That's a use case for aliases, catching if any company or service gives out your email to be abused by advertisers and whatnot. I tried looking for stories but didn't find any, I wonder if you have any to share.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've caught a few, usually the email gets leaked in a data breach (ie. Adobe got breached a while back, so I just block all email to adobe@mydomain.tld). Surprisingly I don't really catch a lot of companies reselling mailing lists, it's mostly data breaches that you can find on haveibeenpwned.