Proton is considering recycling old email addresses that still receive misdirected mail and appear in breach data, raising serious privacy concerns.
Proton is considering recycling old email addresses that still receive misdirected mail and appear in breach data, raising serious privacy concerns.
Wouldn’t the security risk be that if someone thinks the old user is still using that email address, or forgets, they may mistakenly send sensitive into to the person who now has the address…?
Am I missing something?
The previous owners were bots and the accounts were deactivated by proton shortly after registry
Thank you for correcting me :)
Have you read the article? These are old bot accounts that have been disabled for almost a decade. It’s in the very first line.
Nope, I didn’t, thank you for correcting me :)
I’m a lot better about reading the article than I used to be but sometimes I still don’t and just wanna chat about stuff with folks, and in this case that’s my bad