Comment by immibis

3 months ago

Why couldn't you treat coinbase@example.com as hostile?

because it's guessable. If I sign up with Coinbase@example.com, real Coinbase will send me legitimate emails to that address, as well as scammers, so I have to dig into the headers to make sure the email is or isn't forged.

  • Once the Coinbase database is leaked, that's going to be the case no matter what your address was.

    • yes but I can be sure that coinbase_xyz@ is from evil while coinbase_abc@ (the new address that I changed it to, post-leak) is probably not from the hackers unless there was a second breach.