This site only shows if your email address is floating around on some illicit data set.
There are plenty of ways to scrape email addresses without stealing them.
You probably signed up for something using your email address, clicked agree to share it with the company’s trusted partners, all 3,000 of them, and one of them proved not to be so trustworthy.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This site only shows if your email address is floating around on some illicit data set.
There are plenty of ways to scrape email addresses without stealing them.
You probably signed up for something using your email address, clicked agree to share it with the company’s trusted partners, all 3,000 of them, and one of them proved not to be so trustworthy.