The original post: /r/privacy by /u/EmotionCharacter8186 on 2024-05-05 08:01:15.
Hello !
I have an email I was using a lot before (for important things) but not so much since last year, and I connected recently and was very surprised to see spam from websites I have absolutly no interest in, and they knowing my full full name, which I never enter on internet except when it’s obligatory (for jobs, etc)
Actually just as I typed this message, I remember France was victim of big cyberattack and France Travail or something had a big leak of informations a few months ago and I had a message I was part of the leak. At the time I didn’t really care because I am pretty off the internet recently and it didn’t hit me that this means people would have access to my full name and email and use it to subscribe to stupid websites (which I guess is what happened). As I try (welp with many failures) to stay anonymous online, this is a bit annoying and scary (i guess random spam is not the worse that could happen?)
I was wondering what to do about it? I tried googling a bit the problem in french but the results are mainly the news that 43 millions’s peoples informations was leaked and not how to resolve the problem.