New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad? 3 by thatonehack | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am an American who recently visited Europe for a vacation. I visited several countries and ended the trip in Germany. Within a week of getting back home I received an email that was in German to an email address that I have never used in a web form and have only used a few times for emailing someone (back in 2017). The email address has received zero inbound emails except for this one. This is on Fastmail where I have dozens of email addresses that are context based and then to take it even further I almost always use an on-the-fly alias. I have never received an email to the email address in question which I've had for 10 years except for this one instance immediately after visiting Germany. I traveled with a Verizon locked iPhone 17 and had Verizon international add-on. My phone has nearly no apps on it with the exception of the iOS Fastmail app and a few small open source non-blo...