Companies are sharing my email address, either with “affiliate” companies or (seemingly) anyone will to pay for the information. What I have noticed is that, over time, I get email from companies I did not provide with my email address. I see it as a fair exchange: you get to see if I’m a qualified sales lead. I often download content from websites things like analyst reports, white papers, survey results. You might provide a work email address in order to download a report.You might provide a work email address to comment on a web post.A web application might “screen scrape” email addresses (such as that are found on your organization’s public website.You might use your work email to complete an ecommerce transaction, such as ordering lunch from a catering service.So, how does your email address end up in a breached account dataset? There are a few different reasons. Put another way, if your network was hacked, you’d already know that. It very likely doesn’t mean that your network or email service was hacked. Somehow, some way, your email address ended up on one of these sites that list breached email addresses.
If you have been pwned, you need to understand what that means.
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