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edam

Member Since 30 May 2012
Offline Last Active Jan 24 2013 07:49 PM
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My devmaster.net email address is now in the hands of spammers.

18 December 2012 - 03:59 PM

Here are the facts:
  • I use unique email addresses for each site/company.
  • The email address I use with devmaster.net has *ONLY* been used to register with these forums.
  • The email address I use with devmaster.net is sufficiently random to not be guessable.
  • I signed up with devmaster.net 30th May 2012 to post this post. (This has been my only interaction with the site, until now.)
  • Today I received spam (alledgedly from fremanfighter@dune.com) to the email address.
  • The email I received was entirely unrelated to devmaster.net.
I notice that I am not the first person to report this.

So, it seems reasonable to concluding the following.

Either:

a/ devmaster.net has had a serious security breach, or

b/ devmaster.net user email addresses are being given (sold) to unrelated third parties (spammers), in violation of the site's privacy agreement.

Either way, I seriously doubt that I am the only person who would like to hear what the site maintainers have to say about this.