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How to Find Out Which Website Leaked Your Email Address
I run AliasFleet , an email-alias service. One of its features, vendor leak detection, answers a question every developer has asked at least once: which site leaked my address? The mechanism behind it is simple, and that is the point. Let me walk through how it works under the hood.
Your address is a join key
Think of your single email address the way you would think of a database key. It appears in the users table of every service you ever signed up for. When any of those datab...
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