I am new to BW. If this is an item that should be somewhere else let me know.
After recently installing BW on windows 10 and using the BW forum, I noticed several SPAM emails in my associated email account. All of the SPAM is security related (or at least so the subject states.) I am wondering if my email address is available somewhere in BW or BW forums that I can suppress. It seems awfully coincidental that the SPAM started after installing BW.
Did you check the privacy policy and the terms of use for BW vault accounts? See what it says about BW sharing personal info and/or reach out to BW support. Unfortunately, this forum is only user-to-user support.
Personally, I haven’t checked since I never signed up for a BW account, other than this forum. I self-host BW which also requires entering an email address when you create an account. I also use the BW app and the browser add-ons for Windows but I haven’t received any spam.
This sounds somewhat unrelated! I’ve been using Bitwarden for well over a year (upgraded myself/wife to Premium today as a matter of fact) and I’ve never received spam email from them. I get the usual security alerts I’ve signed up to (2FA changed etc) but nothing I’d consider spam.
I thought it was odd that I signed up for a BW account and started receiving SPAM. I am leaning toward coincidental. The SPAM (I hate reading SPAM) points toward a little used email account that forwards to the account I use for BW. This leads me to believe that some other app/program/website/connection allowed the SPAM.
Thanks for your responses. My questions have been answered.