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Let's Encrypt Exposes User Data in Mailing Mistake

Let’s Encrypt, an open source provider of Certificate Authority, accidentally leaked thousands of emails to their subscribers. The organization disclosed revealed that 7,618 email addresses were exposed. The leak sprung from a mass email about a change a change to the organization's subscription agreement. Then an automated mailer-bot added previous recipients to the body of each subsequent message by mistake and this process snowballed until everyone on the list was exposed. 

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