I hope that wasn't me! To avoid their spam I changed my email address in their system to a bunch of random letters/numbers a year or 2 ago. I made it pretty long. If that was your email, I apologize.
Yeah, not sure what happened but I've been experiencing the same thing. My email was leaked onto the web many moons ago but the spam has been harassing me for just a year or so
I use unique emails for everything so when I started getting spam to my amazon email, I knew it was leaked via amazon. The spam however was requests for reviews in exchange for compensation.
I reported this to Amazon and their response was basically to threaten me if I participated.
Yeah, it's been happening to me for about a year now. I went as far as to make another email just to avoid it. Made me sad. I had that email address since 2008 or so.
2/3 years ago I started registering for free trial at Emusic and gave a UNIQUE email addy on the 1st page. Then, when it started asking for my credit card, I curtailed my application.
So, I wasn't even a member of emusic (couldn't log in as you would expect). Yet, it obviously remembered my email addy and leaked it, as shortly after I started to get spam addressed to this email addy that I used exclusively for emusic.
I complained to them but a director replied denying that they had any security breach.
For a couple of years I got the odd spam using this addy. However, in the past few months I'm getting about 40/50 per day.
I'm not too concerned yet, as the spams are not very large and I can filter them to delete from server without downloading them. I'm just a bit worried that they are on the increase and could get larger and more of them to fill my server mailbox.
These are not isolated instances, there are quite a few articles and blogs about it. This is how I found here by googling "emusic spam"!
Was the email address one on a custom or little used domain?
Or on a "major" provider address (e.g. Yahoom, Gmail etc.).
I have set up MSN and Yahoo addresses in readiness for future use and started getting spam to them within the space of a week :)
EDIT: what Im saying is a you making a big accusation. Something like that can damage eMusic for good. If it's true then good - but there are other explanations too.. which we should conasider first.
Yeah i did email you, it was a long time ago (10 years?). I got a typical spam email to my "x-craphound" alias.
I guess you got hacked twice back then.
I've been personally affected by this leak. All the e-mail addresses that I am now receiving spam on have only been used for Dropbox purposes and nothing else. In addition this was over a year ago.
So - email only used for dropbox, last transferred over the web a year ago: where else would it have been leaked from?
Funny story: A week ago, I received an email from a website monitoring service saying that my site was up. I wondered for a second why I didn't get an email saying that my site had been down first. Eventually I realized that I probably did get it, but it went into my Gmail spam. Sure enough, I checked my spam folder, and there it was.
A few years ago I was accidentally emailed movie pass subscriber numbers Alo g with a ton of financial information. (I have a very short Gmail address that is a common fisrt and last name).. I didn't delve into the details too far but the high level summary primed me to expect this day much sooner than it actually ended up being.
One time I made up a new address to use for a SiriusXM signup, and that address got a spam email before the confirmation email. As you can expect, that was filed under "people insisted I was wrong".
Aha, that explains it! I've been contacting school about my e-mail address being spammed; I was certain I never publicly posted it. I used my school's e-mail address for the Dropbox Space Race a while ago.
Of course when I complained they said it must have been something I did...
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