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AU: Email fail at Do Not Call Register, thousands of contacts exposed

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Dissent

Brendon Foye reports:

Thousands of email addresses were exposed yesterday in an email sent on behalf of the Do Not Call Register.

[…]

In an email sighted by CRN sent yesterday, DNCR Support informed about a planned service outage scheduled for 25 May. The email contained more than 2,000 email addresses in the “To” field.

Read more on CRN.


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