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xJuggl3r

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#WhereDidYouGetMyData?!

What do you think of a company that makes a bot and creates an account for people without their consent?

It happened to me!

When I tweeted them about it, the answer was:

Replying to @xjuggl3r
A number of accounts was created by a bot earlier today. If you have any trouble resetting the password to log in and delete that account, please reply to the email you received so we can help with that.

Reading their reply to other users, the company says it was not them, but someone else:

Replying to @xysyxy (username changed here by me)
The account was created by someone who likely obtained your email from a list. Please use our password reset form to gain access to the account, then you can delete it as explained here...

Replying to @bob_joe_page (username changed here by me)
We did not create these accounts. We suspect they might be getting created by a bot and our team is investigating.

What bugs me is:

If not the company, why would someone else subscribe a ton of users to a non related service?

Could be a hacker testing a database against a random service just to validate both emails and service vulnerability?

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