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Re: Is BTCTalk selling our email addresses, or are they getting scraped by spammers?
by
ibminer
on 18/01/2018, 00:02:32 UTC
I registered on BTC Talk with a Gmail alias address that I've never used for any other purpose, nor have I ever published it anywhere. And, to the best of my knowledge, email addresses aren't visible on our profiles, right? Yet, I just received spam email at my address. So, what's going on? Is the site's database susceptible to having emails scraped? Or is someone selling our email addresses? Or what? Either way, it doesn't look good.

You registered in 2014, the forum has been compromised since then and your e-mail was likely leaked... and I believe the database has been sold multiple times. All you can really do is report the message as Spam to your e-mail provider.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1067985.0