Comparethemarket.com.au - Possible Email Leaked? Email Alias Used Exclusively for The Site Has Unauthorised Sign-in Attemps

This may be coincidence, however just in case others have experienced the same;

I created aliases on my regular outlook account and used the sign-in preferences option to restrict logins to only a single alias which is never provided anywhere (E.g. shanelikesabargain_Youllneverguessmyalias@outlook.com) and my sign-in attempts dropped from hundreds a day to 0 for several months now.

After the above I recently created a new alias of regularemailtemp@outlook.com which i used to signup for comparethemarket exclusively. When i created a new alias I didn't realise it automatically adds it as accepting sign-in attempts and checked today and found regularemailtemp@outlook.com had a sign-in attempt. Using temp at the end of my regular email may be a coincidence that the email was guessed OR there's a leak from comparethemarket.

I did notice this thread from 2019 titled "Spam Emails After Using iSelect and/or Compare The Market" at https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/489033 where OZB users mentioned getting spam after possibly using this service.

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  • +6

    Generally speaking, companies like Comparethemarket make money through 2 ways;

    1) commissions on the products they sell, and

    2) selling your data

    They are essentially data aggregators, with very signficant information about you as an individual (dob/address/estimated socio-economic status by the value of your vehicles, properties and contents). This is very valuable, and you agree for them to 'sell or share this information with its partners' - who then in turn, probably on-sell it again.

    Eventually it'll end up in a questionable international company's hands (either used indiscriminately by them, or accidentally leaked)

  • +1

    I have an outlook email and received notice there were 2 sign in attempts. I have not used compare the market. It may not be them

    • +2

      Definitely worthy of a separate thread then.

      • Pam might've just clicked on one too many Facebook ads.

        • What are the risks associated with facebook ads? Are they considered dangerous?

    • The login was on the alias i created exclusively for comparethemarket. it's never been used elsewhere

  • What are some other things you like Shane

    • But you already know, so we don't have to tell you.

  • -3

    coincidence

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