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People using my email address to sign up to services

  • 31-07-2012 9:19am
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭gerryk


    My gmail address is a short one, based on my name, and likely similar to many others' names too. For a long time now people have used my email address to sign up to all sorts of stuff. I'm pretty sure it's not purposely malicious... I mean the only way to exploit that would be to have control over google's authoritative DNS servers. But, I often wonder if there is something I am missing. I don't think so, but would be curious to hear others' opinions.

    Also, you'd be surprised at how many sites have auth bypass issues when accessed via links in emails. I recently got an email from a hotel in Florida where someone had used my email address to book a room. Using a link in the email, I was able to access the booking details, and could have cancelled, or added a further couple of nights with no further authentication.


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