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.

  • @[email protected]
    8•6 days 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.

    • @trolololol
      1•6 days ago

      Trust no one. Why would you even trust either govt or corporations?

  • @Zachariah
    2•6 days 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.

    • @trolololol
      1•6 days ago

      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 [email protected], you will also receive emails automatically for [email protected]