News and musings about the fight against spam. by Edward Falk
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Name and Shame: Bitly sells me out.
I just got a couple of those "please open this invoice" spams. It was sent to a tagged email address I'd only ever given to Bitly (a URL shortening service).
So either Bitly sold my contact info to scammers, or their security is substandard.
Bitly had a data breach in 2014. I'm one of millions who get spam from that, though in my case I didn't use a tagged address, so who knows how much of it is sourced from that.
Bitly had a data breach in 2014. I'm one of millions who get spam from that, though in my case I didn't use a tagged address, so who knows how much of it is sourced from that.
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