An Email Alias Works for Spotify When It Stays Active
An email alias works for Spotify when it stays live and forwards reliably. Spotify resets passwords by email only, so a dead alias strands the account.
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270 articlesChainstack Breach Exposes Emails and Password Hashes
Chainstack disclosed a breach that reached production through a test Grafana instance with default credentials, exposing customer emails and password hashes.
Protect Your Email When Signing Up for Pet Sitting
A pet sitting account holds your home address, payment details and pet routine, and hands them to a stranger. One alias per platform keeps it contained.
TSMC Confirms Employee Data Leak From Cloud Vendor
TSMC confirmed on 12 November that employee data was posted online without authorisation, after sellers offered a claimed 46,000 records for 3 bitcoin.
ezTravel Breach Exposes 690,000 Customers' Email Data
The ezTravel data breach may have exposed names, email addresses, phone numbers and booking details of more than 690,000 members.
Fullerton Health breach may have exposed workers' data
Fullerton Health confirmed unauthorised access to its Migrant Worker Primary Care Plan server; names, FIN numbers and emails may have been affected.
How to Protect Your Email for a Period Tracking App
A period tracking app holds reproductive health data outside HIPAA protection. One alias per tracker keeps the account apart from the banking and work address.
How to Protect Your Email When Signing Up for Therapy
A therapy account holds session notes, intake answers and payment details. One alias per therapy platform keeps that mail in its own stream.
Is Mailfence Safe? Its Encryption Is Opt-In, Not Default
Mailfence promises no one can read mail, not even Mailfence. The claim holds only for mail encrypted with OpenPGP, switched on message by message.
Is Runbox Safe? Norwegian Privacy, Readable Mail
Runbox is a Norwegian email service in operation since 2000. Its protection rests on Norwegian law and GDPR, not on end-to-end encryption by default.