Greetings,
Two days ago a mass-email was sent to a large selection of AdCraft.co users with information about payouts. Unfortunately, the owner had carelessly leaked a large list of emails in the email by including them in the "To:" field. Whether or not this was the complete database of AdCraft.co email addresses is unknown, but it is a massive breach and violation of privacy and data protection.

How does this affect you? Well if you've received this email, your email address was in said list. Some of you may use your addresses publicly, but the main concern is those who prefer to keep these emails for private use. Even then, this mass list can be sold on to maliciously for spam or be used for malicious purposes. An example of this has already happened; 24 hours ago, a forwarded email about "random acts of kindness" was sent out, abusing this list of emails. These email addresses may also be linked and/or traced to accounts on sites such as Facebook.

If you value your privacy, you should immediately change your email accounts or check your privacy settings on websites such as Facebook and be wary of any emails you receive in the near future. Furthermore, I discourage any further usage of adcraft.co* (please see disclosure below) due to this careless handling of email data and gross negligence by the owner, failing to uphold his own privacy policy at https://adcraft.co/privacy .

If you wish to take this further or would like more information on how this affects you, you should email the California Office of Privacy Protection at privacy@scsa.ca.gov or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at http://www.priv.gc.ca/contactUs/index_e.cfm .

tl;dr: If you got this email, your address was leaked along with hundreds from adcraft.co due to carelessness.

Hope I've brought enough attention to this issue. Feel free to ask me for more information.
 

With love,
Major Rasputin
 

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* Disclosure: I am the creator of adfly.simplaza.net, which is a service that bypasses adf.ly and adcraft.co shortened URLs. I take a negative stance against advertisement-powered gateways. Regardless of my stance however, a breach of this scale is still unacceptable from an organization that handles data.