Ameritrade customer email lists sold or stolen?
Item: a number of correspondants have informed me that tagged email addresses given to Ameritrade years ago are now appearing in spam. Source of the leak is unknown and probably unknowable. Ameritrade could have sold the list, or it could have been stolen. My money is that the leak ocurred within some third-party email service provider which Ameritrade hired to send email in the past.
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Leaks of data are far more likly to occure internally at a company that with an Email Service Provided. Here is a great example: http://www.spamroll.com/blogarch/2006/07/fbi_approved_ha_1.php
At the same time, there are hackers that try to sell e-mail lists they claim they've stolen from dating services...
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My ameritrade email was stolen as well. gotta love (NOT) these blog sites that show you the time of day a post was made, but not the date!?
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