This morning, I received a spam email offering me SEO services for meshtastic.discourse.group as though I was in charge of the website/domain. The email wasn’t addressed to a name but rather my email address.
There’s absolutely no way my email address could have been associated with this website so I’m worried that there’s been a data breach.
Can the group admin please liaise with Discourse as a matter of urgency to find out whether or not there’s been a data breach and if so, what details have been leaked?
Someone has DM’d me to point out that my email address was set as my display name. I have no idea how that happened but it explains how someone linked my email address to this site.
I’ve checked some random profiles and no one else seems to have made the same error, so I can only assume the mistake was mine (although I can’t figure out how I allowed it to happen).
If you’re reading this, just have a quick peek to make sure your name isn’t your email address!
Thank you for following up!
I can imagine it happend if you use a password manager that auto-filled your login (email) in your profile page where your display name should be.