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Dell customer order database stolen, for sale on dark web (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/databreaches@lemmy.zip

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's why I started using a catch-all on my domain to register on websites. Each website gets their own email and password combo, and if they get compromised and I get spam, I can just update the email and block the compromised alias.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For others interested in doing this it's possible with Gmail and I presume other providers.

You just use: email.address+dell@gmail.com for example.

Some websites unfortunately don't like the + symbol but I find it's fine for most.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Apple has a hidde my email function built into ICloud

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago

And spammers are probably aware of this and will just strip out the + and everything behind it. Might still be effective to track if your info got leaked tho. If you want to do a real catch-all you need a certain level of technical know-how.