And my point is that it's pretty easy for people to accidentally do it, and this is corroborated by the available evidence, so we should apply hanlon's razor rather than assuming someone at browserstack was laughing maniacally while uploading the email list.
> Only that businesses do things in the business's interest
That's not mutually exclusive with "someone on the sales team uploaded the entire customer list for sales purposes, not realizing the privacy implications".
>more frequently than databreaches.
You're fighting against both hanlon's razor and occam's razor here. The OP states the leak came from Apollo, and as other commenters have noted, Apollo specifically has a "Contributor Network" that shares email lists with other companies, and isn't well documented. It's not hard to imagine how this was done unintentionally. On the other hand there's no evidence to suggest this was done intentionally, other generic cynicism of "businesses do things in the business's interest" or whatever.
Hanlon's razor suggests that browserstack has made the conscious decision to use a vendor and share data with them. Companies of that size don't YOLO those things, that relationship and the data-sharing has passed through legal, they have a contract in place.
Don't assume businesses operate the same way some job-hunting person on monday morning is.
And my point is that it's pretty easy for people to accidentally do it, and this is corroborated by the available evidence, so we should apply hanlon's razor rather than assuming someone at browserstack was laughing maniacally while uploading the email list.
I made no such assertion. Only that businesses do things in the business's interest more frequently than databreaches.
> Only that businesses do things in the business's interest
That's not mutually exclusive with "someone on the sales team uploaded the entire customer list for sales purposes, not realizing the privacy implications".
>more frequently than databreaches.
You're fighting against both hanlon's razor and occam's razor here. The OP states the leak came from Apollo, and as other commenters have noted, Apollo specifically has a "Contributor Network" that shares email lists with other companies, and isn't well documented. It's not hard to imagine how this was done unintentionally. On the other hand there's no evidence to suggest this was done intentionally, other generic cynicism of "businesses do things in the business's interest" or whatever.
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Hanlon's razor suggests that browserstack has made the conscious decision to use a vendor and share data with them. Companies of that size don't YOLO those things, that relationship and the data-sharing has passed through legal, they have a contract in place.
Don't assume businesses operate the same way some job-hunting person on monday morning is.