Hundreds of email addresses shared in 'horrific' Victorian victims of crime administrative error

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨melbourne@aussie.zone⁩

If you think you may be affected, change your email addresses. That’s the advice they’re giving.

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josephb@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
And what compensation will be offered? The amount of careless use of our data, and it goes without any significant punishment or retribution, is just horrendous.

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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Jesus fucking christ. And these are the organisations we are supposed to trust.

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- trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Trust no one. Why would you even trust either govt or corporations?
  
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Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I wish what I do was more common:

Buy a domain name.

Make a new email alias for every entity I interact with:
amazon@example.com
nintendo@example.com etc.

They all point to the same FastMail, Proton, or self-hosted email address, so I only have to go to one place to read all my email.

I can just nuke an alias whenever it starts receiving spam.

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- trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You don’t need to go that far. I’m only familiar with one password manager but it does create email aliases when you’re signing up, though I never tried.
  
  The other thing you can do if you have Gmail , the plus sign is used to create aliases. If your email is foo@gmail.com, you will also receive emails automatically for foo+bar@gmail.com
  
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  - Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, those are good, too.
    
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