![]() ![]() ![]() Using email aliases protects your privacy and your security. email aliases on the fly adds a line of privacy defense to online accounts.” - Son Nguyen Kim, SimpleLogin Founder and CEO ![]() “Most people have one primary email address that becomes their internet identity. Finally, a leaked email is an easy target for spam and phishing schemes. Or they can begin a “ credential stuffing” attack, trying combinations of possible passwords with the leaked email address or username. “Hackers and trackers abuse email addresses and passwords to break into accounts and link personal information.” - Luke Crouch, Firefox Relay Security EngineerĬybercriminals will scan thousands of lists to find an email address that shows up more than once, allowing them to build a profile of that user for a possible targeted attack. But that protection is not often extended to email addresses, which makes them easy to compile into large databases and share on the dark web. Fortunately, most (but not all) internet companies do provide some protection to stored passwords, saving only the hashed values so that the actual “plain text” passwords aren’t exposed. Data breaches are a sadly too-common occurrence, with usernames, email addresses, passwords, and other sensitive information getting leaked from a company’s servers and into the hands of nefarious actors. ![]()
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