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Sites Leaking Users' Email Addresses

Posted by Zonk on from the put-some-tape-on-that dept.

Pisang writes "CNet is running a story about how spammers and phishers can learn about our surfing habits to better target their attacks. According to the article, web sites that use e-mail addresses as IDs are vulnerable to attacks that could leak their users' email addresses. These attacks are performed by requesting a password reminder for an address or trying to register with it."

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  1. Re:register with by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 3, Funny


    Naaww. My favorite to register on misc. sites is the e-mail address of "Bill.Gates@microsoft.com".

    My favorite on annoyingsite.com is to use sales@annoyingsite.com