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Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying (nerds.xyz)

submitted 6 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Proton is considering recycling old email addresses that still receive misdirected mail and appear in breach data, raising serious privacy concerns.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't the security risk be that if someone thinks the old user is still using that email address, or forgets, they may mistakenly send sensitive into to the person who now has the address...?

Am I missing something?

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The previous owners were bots and the accounts were deactivated by proton shortly after registry

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you for correcting me :)

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Have you read the article? These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade. It's in the very first line.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nope, I didn't, thank you for correcting me :)

I'm a lot better about reading the article than I used to be but sometimes I still don't and just wanna chat about stuff with folks, and in this case that's my bad