If this happened in my country that would breach privacy laws. It might also constitute hacking depending on what kind of administration the company does.
Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#72A reasonably well-known blogging site handed my account to a would-be porn star while I wasn't looking. That link is now way more interesting. And while it was linked to my LinkedIn. Yikes.
The Internet gives, and the Internet takes away.
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case, I did not even use the company email. I was my personal gmail.
> In this case, I did not even use the company email. I was my personal gmail. From the Atlassian community page it looks like the Trello account in question was linked to both your personal gmail account and an email account belonging to your former employer. Was that Trello account only for work items for that former employer? Or was it a mixture of both work items for that employer and personal items for you? Or w…
I will try to set some context here. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email @company.com
The multiple account login used to work the same way it works for github now. The boards were very clearly labeled under the email/username they were created and clearly had the ownership well defined. As soon as I left the company and my email was disabled, all the boards under that email disappeared from my account. This was expected and kept using my primary email (i always used to login with my username) and completely forgot about an attached secondary email (which anyways is now deactivated). Fast forward 5 years with tons of personal boards under this account, one morning it stopped working without any notification (yes i revised my spam to be sure about it) with all my data gone.
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#74GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…
The specter of this sort of violation hangs over the shoulder of every internet user now - the loss of an account on a service like Facebook, GitHub, or Trello could be life-altering. Our digital selves are all at risk of becoming The Trial's protagonist. Do we have any protection besides moving to a new platform that's not big enough to betray its users yet?
Although it's certainly annoying to lose an old account, for many services it's just a hassle.
I went through this with a Reddit account that got hacked. I was able to get the spammer shut down but had to create a new account, and really, it's okay. The people who know you will reconnect, and the others don't matter much.
It used to be that everyone got a new phone number when they moved, and we managed.
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#75From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it.
I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email @company.com
The multiple account login used to work the same way it works for github now. The boards were very clearly labeled under the email/username they were created and clearly had the ownership well defined. As soon as I left the company and my email was disabled, all the boards under that email disappeared from my account. This was expected and kept using my primary email (i always used to login with my username) and completely forgot about an attached secondary email (which anyways is now deactivated). Fast forward 5 years with tons of personal boards under this account, one morning it stopped working without any notification (yes i revised my spam to be sure about it) with all my data gone.
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#76Whenever I get a “Good news! We’re changing things” email from Atlassian, I get an ominous feeling. It typically means they are making some changes to one of their products. The changes don’t benefit me at all, but do cause me disruption. I think any warm feeling I had towards Atlassian evaporated with the whole HipChat-to-Stride-to-nothing fiasco. 1. “Good news! We are replacing HipChat with Stride, which is a worse…
"Good news, everyone. Tomorrow you'll be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet." ― Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
"In our quest to improve our service for you, the user, we're making it worse"
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#77GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…
I feel moved to strictly only use fake names online. Like..
I recently moaned and whined to my friend about how when i was growing up a person/entity (to my recollection) would feel.. like they received a magical gift just to send a message online.. having a web page was like.. winning the nerd superbowl.. Now it's like.. we are supposed to take a knee to any company that gets sufficient presence and significance (linkedin, etc trying to find a job).
What actions had you taken toward trying to remedy this ?
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
The specter of this sort of violation hangs over the shoulder of every internet user now - the loss of an account on a service like Facebook, GitHub, or Trello could be life-altering. Our digital selves are all at risk of becoming The Trial's protagonist. Do we have any protection besides moving to a new platform that's not big enough to betray its users yet?
Although it's certainly annoying to lose an old account, for many services it's just a hassle. I went through this with a Reddit account that got hacked. I was able to get the spammer shut down but had to create a new account, and really, it's okay. The people who know you will reconnect, and the others don't matter much. It used to be that everyone got a new phone number when they moved, and we managed.
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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In this case, I did not even use the company email. I was my personal gmail. From the Atlassian community page it looks like the Trello account in question was linked to both your personal gmail account and an email account belonging to your former employer. Was that Trello account only for work items for that former employer? Or was it a mixture of both work items for that employer and personal items for you? Or w…
I will try to set some context here. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email @company.com The multiple account…
> At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to my account and created few boards under it. This email was my companies email
This makes it seem like it's the third of the options I mentioned (personal account which happens to have a work email as an alternate email). But what you say a little further on (quoted below) makes it clear that it's the second: you used the same Trello account for both personal and work items. If the account had access to the company's boards, it's not just your personal account any more. It's a mixed work/personal account (which, as I and others in this thread have said, is not a good idea).
> As soon as I left the company and my email was disabled, all the boards under that email disappeared from my account.
But you apparently didn't remove that company's email from the Trello account. That's water under the bridge now, but in any case it seems like the company ought to be fine with telling Atlassian that you're no longer working for them and the email under their domain can be removed from the account.
What you seem to be wanting, though, is for Atlassian to just go ahead and erase that company's email from the account, or otherwise disconnect that account totally from the company so you can use it again, without any agreement from the company that that's ok. I don't see why Atlassian should do that.
Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company
#80GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…
That's ugly, I'm sorry.
It's also why I oppose using social authentication with anything. While we have access to our [Facebook, Twitter, Github, Google, LinkedIn] account today, what happens if they shut it down? We have no clue of the real consequences and no appeals process. It's the worst of both worlds.