Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?

Re:Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back? by kettleballroll on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:38AM (#31304439)

I've done the same, but apparently no one ever sells my email. Did your effort ever pay off?

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back? by mbirth on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:45AM (#31304520)

Yes, various times. Mostly LinkedIn and a few other services that vanished but seemingly sold their userdata. And 2 or 3 times I've got spam before the company announced that they got hacked.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back? by cube00 on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:14AM (#31304788)

Paid off for me. Very satisfying busting a company selling my address and bringing to their privacy officer's attention as to why I'll never be a customer of theirs again.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back? by nerdzero on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:44AM (#31304505)

I've been doing this for years and have had maybe 4 addresses compromised out of a couple hundred.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back? by malka on Sunday May 08, 2022 @10:59AM (#31304676)

same here. I was expecting a lot more re-selling of my email adress to be honest.

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