Is BTCTalk selling our email addresses, or are they getting scraped by spammers?

[camartinez]

I registered on BTC Talk with a Gmail alias address that I've never used for any other purpose, nor have I ever published it anywhere. And, to the best of my knowledge, email addresses aren't visible on our profiles, right? Yet, I just received spam email at my address. So, what's going on? Is the site's database susceptible to having emails scraped? Or is someone selling our email addresses? Or what? Either way, it doesn't look good.

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[ibminer]

I registered on BTC Talk with a Gmail alias address that I've never used for any other purpose, nor have I ever published it anywhere. And, to the best of my knowledge, email addresses aren't visible on our profiles, right? Yet, I just received spam email at my address. So, what's going on? Is the site's database susceptible to having emails scraped? Or is someone selling our email addresses? Or what? Either way, it doesn't look good.

You registered in 2014, the forum has been compromised since then and your e-mail was likely leaked... and I believe the database has been sold multiple times. All you can really do is report the message as Spam to your e-mail provider.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067985.0

[InvoKing]

I registered on BTC Talk with a Gmail alias address that I've never used for any other purpose, nor have I ever published it anywhere. And, to the best of my knowledge, email addresses aren't visible on our profiles, right? Yet, I just received spam email at my address. So, what's going on? Is the site's database susceptible to having emails scraped? Or is someone selling our email addresses? Or what? Either way, it doesn't look good.

You registered in 2014, the forum has been compromised since then and your e-mail was likely leaked... and I believe the database has been sold multiple times. All you can really do is report the message as Spam to your e-mail provider.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067985.0

And preferably change your password (+/- mail depending from your setting) if you want to secure your bitcointalk account tho.
Personally I never remember having a spam in my mailbox.

[camartinez]

Fair enough. Thanks for the replies, everyone. I already marked the email as spam and filed an abuse report with the sender's email provider, in case that'd make a difference. I've probably gotten other spam emails, then, but the one I got earlier today was the first I've seen get through to my inbox and not get filed as spam.

I'll update my password on here too just in case.

[TheQuin]

You registered in 2014, the forum has been compromised since then and your e-mail was likely leaked

You can enter your email address at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and it will tell you if it was included in the May 2015 database hack. My one also gives a positive for a BTC-e hack in Oct 2014 so I'm not sure which one is the source of the spam I get.

[clouder12]

You registered in 2014, the forum has been compromised since then and your e-mail was likely leaked

You can enter your email address at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and it will tell you if it was included in the May 2015 database hack. My one also gives a positive for a BTC-e hack in Oct 2014 so I'm not sure which one is the source of the spam I get.

Quite interesting, i'll try this one :p

[Javi_Anibarro]

I registered on BTC Talk with a Gmail alias address that I've never used for any other purpose, nor have I ever published it anywhere. And, to the best of my knowledge, email addresses aren't visible on our profiles, right? Yet, I just received spam email at my address. So, what's going on? Is the site's database susceptible to having emails scraped? Or is someone selling our email addresses? Or what? Either way, it doesn't look good.

You registered in 2014, the forum has been compromised since then and your e-mail was likely leaked... and I believe the database has been sold multiple times. All you can really do is report the message as Spam to your e-mail provider.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067985.0

it is for real ?
no wonder i got a lot of emails from an 'alien' which is i really do not know what should i do.
everyday i got 100 emails and sometimes it's more than that.
but i registered in 2016,it is the same thing too ? or not ?

[TheQuin]

but i registered in 2016,it is the same thing too ? or not ?

The hack was in May 2015 so that would not be possible. Read my post above and use the link I posted and you might find out the source of your email leaking. If there is nothing there then it is also possible you simply signed up to an emailing list unwittingly by not checking a box when registering somewhere or you put your email in plain text somewhere on the internet where it could be scraped.