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Re:Coinbase Merchant Data Leak? by Irregardless on Friday April 05, 2013 @10:50AM (#5498744)
Giving out the emails associated with their accounts is a really bad idea. Having them indexed by Google is even worse, hence the phishing attempts.
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Re:Coinbase Merchant Data Leak? by verroq on Friday April 05, 2013 @12:11PM (#5499259)
These are sellers and their contact information. The whole point is that they are public.
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Re:Coinbase Merchant Data Leak? by mbreese on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:07PM (#5500002)
Having official public contact information, well, public, is fine - that's the point. But having the email addresses associated with merchant accounts isn't. Hence the phishing concern.
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Re:Coinbase Merchant Data Leak? by joelrunyon on Friday April 05, 2013 @12:42PM (#5499474)
I'm still wondering why they have to publicly display those emails in relation to the accounts associated with it.

Why can't those stay anonymous?

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