Doesn't sound like a lot of fun. Nor am I confident I can make the case.
I do think I can make a case with a criminal complaint for them using my
email address fraudulently which is what I intend.
From: Walter Gilbert
Maybe you should contact this guy:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/26/national/a113305S63.DTL
-- Walt On 12/26/2010 8:59 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> I mentioned that when I got home from my trip I found several emails
> in my inbox indicating that my "Gawker account" was compromised. Funny
> thing about it was I didn't even know I had a "Gawker account".
>
> But I followed up using the tools recommended and sure enough my email
> address came up as one of those compromised.
>
> I couldn't get any other information about this "Gawker account" to
> help me figure out which if any of my passwords might be compromised,
> so I've ended up changing every password for any online account
> associated with my email address.
>
> Still couldn't get any help from Gawker, other than advice to change
> the password on my "Gawker account" ... which I still didn't know
> anything about.
>
> After a lot of digging and flailing around, including installing a
> torrent viewer so I could download the file the hackers published
> online with the information from Gawker's user database in order to
> search it for my email address, I discovered that I indeed do not have
> a "Gawker account".
>
> Someone else has a Gawker account using my email address that I knew
> nothing about, and Gawker could not be bothered to verify the email.
>
> I'm really pissed.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, Gawker behaved negligently allowing someone
> else to use my email address as identification; allowing a someone to
> register an account with my email address and failing to verify the
> email or obtain my permission to use my email address for that account.
>
> They have inconvenienced me and done me grievous harm by their
> negligence.
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