Source: WIRED Daily
Security researchers bought abandoned domains like noreply.net and deleteduser.com and received years of misdirected sensitive data—passwords, medical records, financial statements—that companies automatically sent to these addresses. Automation and default email practices have created a system where corporate negligence, not sophisticated hacking, is the primary vector for mass data exposure. For consumers, privacy is threatened not by malicious actors alone but by the routine operational negligence of every company you've interacted with.