Leaked information. Are we really safe at all?

[PrimeNumber7]

Once a email is leaked or involved in something like that i dont would trust the email anymore and try to get a new one !
Maybe try to get one email for one Exchange and not for many so the chance is less that other things get hacked maybe or some more damage coming !

It is best to to use unique email addresses for each financial account, but I don't believe an email address associated with a financial account makes it unreliable.

There are many people who have publicly facing email addresses, and many of them probably use those same email addresses with some of their financial accounts.

As long as you use completely unique passwords (not password1, password2, password3, and so on) with each account, you should be generally safe.

I received a handful of spam emails, and another handful of scam emails to my throwaway email associated with my BitMex account, but after ignoring all of them, they stopped after a few days. Although many email addresses were leaked, they were only leaked in batches of 1,000 people to those 1,000 people, so the entire world doesn't necessarily know your BitMex email address if it was leaked.

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[DdmrDdmr]

<…> Although many email addresses were leaked, they were only leaked in batches of 1,000 people to those 1,000 people, so the entire world doesn't necessarily know your BitMex email address if it was leaked.

The thing is that, eventually, some people start putting those together and shift/sell them around. For example, if we take a look at this Tweet (https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1190748469633462279), the author claims that:

-   He has got his hands on a list of 23K BitMEX leaked emails (23 batches there).
-   He estimates, and this is interesting, that 70% of the list can be doxed because the email itself use either a name and surname composition, or a unique specific domain name. That is something to consider.

[PrimeNumber7]

<…> Although many email addresses were leaked, they were only leaked in batches of 1,000 people to those 1,000 people, so the entire world doesn't necessarily know your BitMex email address if it was leaked.

The thing is that, eventually, some people start putting those together and shift/sell them around. For example, if we take a look at this Tweet (https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1190748469633462279), the author claims that:

-   He has got his hands on a list of 23K BitMEX leaked emails (23 batches there).
-   He estimates, and this is interesting, that 70% of the list can be doxed because the email itself use either a name and surname composition, or a unique specific domain name. That is something to consider.

Assuming he is telling the truth (I don’t believe everything I read on Twitter), it would show that these people have a BitMex account. For those with their full name in their email, they may have used an alias.

It should remain that it is a best practice to take care to verify the content of any emails or messages are accurate before relying on the information or taking action based on its content.