How spammers and hackers are using your GitHub email addresses

Today myself and a bunch of friends all got an identical email (below). We all work for different companies and but we all got the same pitch. Pay us to get a list so you can spam all the devs on GitHub....Well the pitch was a little different but that is what it translated to.

see tweet here for email [https://twitter.com/jlengrand/status/1629770767020826627](https://twitter.com/jlengrand/status/1629770767020826627)

Immediately it is clear how this data came about. Obtaining everyone's email is remarkably easy with GitHub, simply add …

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