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Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

ID: 45f71878-8880-53de-9a5f-7a484ac0e9d1

STIX ID: report--45f71878-8880-53de-9a5f-7a484ac0e9d1

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2026-08-08

Date Updated: 2026-08-10

Author: Matt Burgess

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Since December 2024 a security researcher who owns the domains noreply.us and noreply.net has unintentionally become a large-scale 'honeypot', receiving roughly 401,796 misdirected messages (about 700/day) from companies and organizations that send sensitive information to placeholder/no-reply addresses; the researcher alerts affected entities and presented the findings at Defcon, and there is no public evidence of malicious actors exploiting the data.

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