Surprisingly, there aren't that many. When I started, I thought I would catch my email address being resold. The only reseller has been Democrat politicians or funding sites like Go Blue. The other one is Engagez, which is some kind of tech vendor expo I signed up for with some meetup event.
The most widely spread breached address is LinkedIn by a wide margin. Houzz is second. Zynga, Imgur are also in contention.
When I started getting porn spam from the Diver's Alert Network, I alerted them to a breach. They misunderstood and just told me how to change my password.
The most annoying thing is that I found my personal robert@ email address is HIBP under the evite breach. I so jealously guard my personal address. A well meaning friend invited me to something with evite. And that's all it took.
>I so jealously guard my personal address. A well meaning friend invited me to something with evite. And that's all it took.
I hate when this stuff happens. I setup an email address like that for myself and I have never used it because I’m so afraid it will have something like that happen.
My dad is guilty of doing stuff like that often. He was renting a VRBO for the family and wanted us all to see the invite, but he threw in my email address that I only use for family correspondence. When I went to sign up (because he didn’t tell me this), I used a different address and it was a mess. I had to get him to re-invite me to the trip with the new email, but VRBO still started sending me some nonsense to my good email. He also gave it to some financial planner he uses and they started emailing me left and right. I was really upset. Like you said, he means well with it, but I don’t think anyone should be handing out other people’s email addresses.
The other thing that can get you are social sites that ask users to upload their contacts to find people they know. If your friend or family member uploads their address book, you’re account ends up in the Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or whatever other site might do it. I’ve never used that feature for this reason, I don’t want to do that to people. But I know some of my friends and family have done it and my addresses are sitting in other DBs because of it, probably with my name, phone number, address, and maybe even birthday as well.
The most widely spread breached address is LinkedIn by a wide margin. Houzz is second. Zynga, Imgur are also in contention.
When I started getting porn spam from the Diver's Alert Network, I alerted them to a breach. They misunderstood and just told me how to change my password.
The most annoying thing is that I found my personal robert@ email address is HIBP under the evite breach. I so jealously guard my personal address. A well meaning friend invited me to something with evite. And that's all it took.