Yahoo leaked customers' e-mail addresses?

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Yahoo leaked customers' e-mail addresses?

bcc1234

9:52 pm on Dec 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

I started getting spam to a couple of my e-mail aliases that I used to sign up to Overture.

They are both in a form of overture-account@mydomain.com (two different accounts), so it's pretty hard to guess for a spammer who is simply trying all combinations like info@ help@ john@ mike@ etc.

I'm really puzzled by this.

bigdealioo

12:01 pm on Dec 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

yep, me too. prolly a rogue employee. happens fairly often.

adessa

12:15 pm on Dec 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

Nope, it is not Yahoo that leaks email. Few months ago, I posted in messageboard in a popular website with my email and after that hundreds of unsolicited emails are coming to my inbox.

It seems that the origins of the mails are using email extractor.

bcc1234

12:20 pm on Dec 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

It seems that the origins of the mails are using email extractor.

That's not the case here. I never used those addresses anywhere else.