Seems perfectly normal to get an unsolicited offer for the contact info of people attending a European security conference, right?
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@jerry Attended a tech conference some years ago, and used a conference-specific email forwarder.
That email was used exclusively for the conference, and received only conference-related mail — until ~four years later, the newly-reorganized organizers and other senders all started spamming that email.
Old databases don’t go away.
But that email forwarder sure did.
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yup. i've had "single use" emails that were dormant for over 12 years suddenly start spewing spam. i also regularly get spam to emails that have never existed (i've been only owner of the domain name) and never worked. a couple of these broken emails have been hit for decades.
old databases don't go away and are never cleaned up. just resold to other spammers.
@paul_ipv6 @HoffmanLabs the amount of spam I get to $username@infosec.exchange is beyond all comprehension. Usernames look like email addresses and every crawler seems to have found them.