Hundreds of email addresses, some understood to belong to victims of crime, have been shared in a Victorian courts administrative blunder, leaving at least one victim "very frightened" about the fallout.

If you think you may be affected, change your email addresses. That’s the advice they’re giving.

  • josephb@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 month ago

    And what compensation will be offered? The amount of careless use of our data, and it goes without any significant punishment or retribution, is just horrendous.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    I wish what I do was more common:

    Buy a domain name.

    Make a new email alias for every entity I interact with:
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    etc.

    They all point to the same FastMail, Proton, or self-hosted email address, so I only have to go to one place to read all my email.

    I can just nuke an alias whenever it starts receiving spam.