Northeastern University continues to send me emails urging me to check the status of my application to their MBA program. Except I never did such. Some fool doesn't even know his own email address and has mistakenly entered mine. I contacted the school once, but the messages are still coming and I'm done. They are spam now. I suppose you don't deserve an MBA if you can't figure out what your email address is. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:59 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > I mentioned that when I got home from my trip I found several emails in my > inbox indicating that my "Gawker account" was compromised. Funny thing about > it was I didn't even know I had a "Gawker account". > > But I followed up using the tools recommended and sure enough my email > address came up as one of those compromised. > > I couldn't get any other information about this "Gawker account" to help me > figure out which if any of my passwords might be compromised, so I've ended > up changing every password for any online account associated with my email > address. > > Still couldn't get any help from Gawker, other than advice to change the > password on my "Gawker account" ... which I still didn't know anything > about. > > After a lot of digging and flailing around, including installing a torrent > viewer so I could download the file the hackers published online with the > information from Gawker's user database in order to search it for my email > address, I discovered that I indeed do not have a "Gawker account". > > Someone else has a Gawker account using my email address that I knew nothing > about, and Gawker could not be bothered to verify the email. > > I'm really pissed. > > As far as I'm concerned, Gawker behaved negligently allowing someone else to > use my email address as identification; allowing a someone to register an > account with my email address and failing to verify the email or obtain my > permission to use my email address for that account. > > They have inconvenienced me and done me grievous harm by their negligence. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
