Acronis shares email addresses with outside company for spam purposes
I use separate email addresses for each service / company, and I was disgusted to receive the below email on 14 November to the email address I used specifically for my Acronis account only, meaning it was definitely Acronis that shared my email address without my consent.
Dear [redacted]
Is it easy keeping your website and IT infrastructure up and running? Perhaps it’s taking up a lot of time and resources.
That’s why we created the following tools: to keep your websites, servers and other IT infrastructure up and running - and to prevent problems before they happen.
Feel free to make use of the tools and to share them with your colleagues.
The following interactive checklists contain the necessary steps that should be taken to maintain your servers, in order to prevent a crisis.
Linux Server Maintenance Checklist
Windows Server Maintenance Checklist
This article dispels some myths and provides practical advice on how to keep your ecommerce site running - How to Increase E-commerce Site Uptime.
And finally, here’s a simple yet powerful monitoring tool for web services and IT infrastructure - Solution for monitoring your web site and IT infrastructure.
I hope you find these tools and guides useful. If you don't manage your company’s IT infrastructure, please forward this along to the person who does.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Ilya Sidorov
Marketing Director
Anturis Inc.
is@anturis.com
www.anturis.com
But Acronis don't have to reply... Terms of Use.
As it is see my post here, it may not necessarily have been Acronis that shared the email addresses, but someone that only did what I did...look them up
Which is more shocking, Acronis's blatant lack of care for security or someone taking advantage of said lack of security? Votes please.
The fact that Acronis tweeted about their "friends from Anturis" tell me that it's more likely Acronis themselves shared their customer email address list with Anturis.
Sean, not only has Acronis (or one of the mods) removed your post from being visible on the forum, but they've done the same to this post too. And they've changed your link so that it no longer points to any particular forum thread.