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Pine64 data leak or selling my info? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/pine64@lemmy.ml
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I used a brand new email alias when I created an account at pine64.com to buy the PineTime. Before Saturday, I had only ever received an email at that address from Pine64, regarding that order. On Saturday, I received an email at that address trying to sell me a 1st Anniversary Commemorative set of Riftbound cards. I don’t even know what that is.

Do you think they leaked some customer data or are they selling it?

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago

same here. i emailed pine64 about it but had no response so far

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Who would bother buying random email lists from companies (unless you clicked something when signing up)? Email lists aren't worth anything

    More likely a browser extension or your email host providing them

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Just to add in the technical realm. It could also be a security vuln, a very common one through which the attackers get massive amounts of emails and that'd be shared with tens of thousands of other websites. Like, auto-harvesting through a vuln.

    In any case no selling or leaking, that would just not work.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yeah.. That is definitely possible too.. But.. If it was a day after, its probably less likely.

    A lot of websites also use systems like Postmark for outbound emails.. so, it could also be one of those companies harvesting the data

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