iPad 3G Email Breach - Just Received My First Spam

[bowlerman625]

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[lionheartednyhc]

I believe this must be related to the email breach. I've had this email address for 2 years and use it lightly compared to my other address. This address is the one I use for my Apple things and was used to sign up for 3G service on the iPad. I just received my first piece of spam in 2 years........


Thanks AT&T !!!!!!!!!!

It has nothing to do with the email breach. Unbunch your panties.

 

[bowlerman625]

It has nothing to do with the email breach. Unbunch your panties.

How can you be so sure? Are you the spam master? Geez

 

[superflush]

Did they email everyone whose email address was breached?
How are we to know if our email addresses are among the list?

 

[Stealthipad]

How can you be so sure? Are you the spam master? Geez

A better question is how can YOU knwo for sure!

It is so easy to make wild claims!

Maybe you should sue!

 

[Hammie]

Spam can come from any number of sources. Some could include:

- E-mail address was stolen
- E-mail address was sold
- Mail provider spam filter not up to date
- Mail program junk mail filter not up to date
- Spam-bot sends mass e-mails out to auto generated e-mail acounts (basically guesses based on domain name)

All of these are viable reasons to start to get junk mail. You cannot blame a single incident that made it to the news as the fault. E-mail addresses probably get compromised more than you think.

 

[skubish]

Note to OP:

Don't use your email address to sign up for things unless you want spam.

Either:
1. Use a secondary email address
2. Use a fake email address (depends on the situation)

 

[bowlerman625]

Note to OP:

Don't use your email address to sign up for things unless you want spam.

Either:
1. Use a secondary email address
2. Use a fake email address (depends on the situation)

Well I did.

I created an alias through mobile me and that's what i used. Since 2008 I never received one piece of spam. Now I receive one. I don't use this email except for apple related things and used it for my 3 G signup on the iPad.
That's why i figure it's related to that issue. Maybe not.

 

[daveschroeder]

Considering that the list wasn't released publicly and wasn't harvested for spam purposes (there are millions of much easier ways to harvest valid email addresses), I would say very unlikely.

But this is illustrative of what people will now believe because of not understanding the breach, exactly what occurred, the motivations behind it, etc.