More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan

Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by bisby on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:16PM (#13073143)

What is the downside of someone having your email address, especially with no other context.

If they have other data on your email address, they don't need your email address to do anything with it. If they don't have other data, then there's no issue.

You're not concerned about people having public access to your twitter handle, why would you be concerned about people having public access to your email address.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by mcbits on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:53PM (#13073510)

A list of emails + IP addresses would be valuable to web surveillance companies that already have trails of data for the IP addresses and emails separately.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by m00dy on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:25PM (#13073230)

Well, they at least know my email address and my interest for android phones. Am I only one thinking that It is so easy to sell the whole list to a Chinese manufacturer ?

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by awqrre on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:43PM (#13073432)

They also probably have the http://news.ycombinator.com referrer, among other things.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by pbhjpbhj on Thursday December 01, 2016 @08:36AM (#13079222)

Twitter handle is public. Email addy can be private.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by bisby on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:27AM (#13112466)

Unless you use your email for ONLY signing up for accounts online, the entire purpose of email addresses is for other people to have them.

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