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Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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Re: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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fontain wrote: post #44
streblo wrote: post #12

Everyone in this thread suggesting a “data leak” or “compromise” is totally missing the fact that this is how Apollo works. This is often times overlooked by Apollo customers themselves. You have to opt out of customer data sharing (and in doing so lose out on the value of the product): https://knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/20727684184589... Not commenting on whether this is good or ethical (or even totally l…

For a little more color for people unfamiliar with modern sales/marketing: 1. A user signs up to BrowserStack 2. BrowserStack (automatically) upload the submitted user’s information to Apollo 3. Apollo “enrich” the user’s details using information they already have about the person, e.g: company revenue, LinkedIn profile 4. Sales reps at BrowserStack use the enriched information to identify leads, bucket for marketin…

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Re: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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Post by anonymousiam »

noAnswer wrote: post #42
OptionOfT wrote: post #23

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Yes ma'am, my email address really is bofa.com@ .com No I'm not trying to hack you. Which in hindsight is also what a hacker would say. I can't win...

There are some big brain companies who will block you if their name appears in the email address. Like Discord. You can create an account, with discrod@example.com. But a seconde later you will get an email that your account got band. They know their way around IT security! /s

What you say is often true, but in the case of Discord, at least in my case, you are wrong. My Discord email address is discord@xxx.com, and I am still receiving emails from them.

Re: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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Post by fontain »

saxonww wrote: post #58
fontain wrote: post #44

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For a little more color for people unfamiliar with modern sales/marketing: 1. A user signs up to BrowserStack 2. BrowserStack (automatically) upload the submitted user’s information to Apollo 3. Apollo “enrich” the user’s details using information they already have about the person, e.g: company revenue, LinkedIn profile 4. Sales reps at BrowserStack use the enriched information to identify leads, bucket for marketin…

So I'm not disputing this, but I set up a similar scheme to the author almost 8 years ago and conduct 90+% of my online business through the custom emails. Everything from Amazon to small local business. In that time I have had 'leaks' twice: my State's Fish and Wildlife licensing organ, and GitHub. In both cases I assume it's more that the email ends up being public, not because of something like Apollo. I guess it'…

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Re: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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Post by bright2026 »

timpera wrote: post #14
nurettin wrote: post #11

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Brightdata? Isn't that the israeli firm formerly called luminati that sells you shady "high quality residential IPs" that you can rotate to scrape the web?

Yes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.

Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.

Re: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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Post by jen20 »

JimDabell wrote: post #51
jen20 wrote: post #10

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The simplest answer is they are voluntarily being scum and selling user data to make a quick buck. It’s almost universally true.

> It’s almost universally true. It’s not. I give a unique email address to every service I register with, which means I can see who is leaking my email address. Very few of them leak my email address at all, and those that do tend to do so involuntarily through data breaches. The other main factors in spam are the sleazeballs at Apollo, ZoomInfo, et al., services that use my email address internally for more than I c…

I do the same, and seem to have a much higher hit rate (or a much lower acceptable baseline!)

Re: Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses

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Post by jen20 »

gruez wrote: post #16
jen20 wrote: post #10

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The simplest answer is they are voluntarily being scum and selling user data to make a quick buck. It’s almost universally true.

>and selling user data to make a quick buck Are there actually companies that will pay you $$$ for a list of emails?

Not exactly, but plenty will just sell everything to data brokers.
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