If you think you may be affected, change your email addresses. That's the advice they're giving.
Hundreds of email addresses shared in 'horrific' Victorian victims of crime administrative error
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/victorian-court-victims-of-crime-privacy-breach/104413516?
6 Comments
josephb@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1y
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.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Jesus fucking christ. And these are the organisations we are supposed to trust.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Trust no one. Why would you even trust either govt or corporations?
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I wish what I do was more common:
Buy a domain name.
Make a new email alias for every entity I interact with:
amazon@example.com
nintendo@example.com
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.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
You don't need to go that far. I'm only familiar with one password manager but it does create email aliases when you're signing up, though I never tried.
The other thing you can do if you have Gmail , the plus sign is used to create aliases. If your email is foo@gmail.com, you will also receive emails automatically for foo+bar@gmail.com
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah, those are good, too.