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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
I would hope all of you who have been affected will contact the authorities about this. Whoever did this has to be somewhat knowledgeable with the industry. A run-of-the-mill hacker would have harvested the CC data as well as the e-mail data. The hacker knew what they could and couldn't get away with.
I'd suggest looking at the spam e-mails you received following the member signups. See if there is a common sponsor or theme to those spams. See if you can get the affiliate data from that particular sponsor. It shouldn't be too difficult to see who profited off this data.
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You can always follow the money trail. They have to be spamming a program with the emails. They had to provide a way for that program to pay them.
There is also the possibility that someone could have been trying to harvest data. Imagine if one program got to see who all of your top affiliates were, how much they make, a way to contact them, and what sites they used to send you sales. I think that kind of information would be 100x more valuable to the right people then a bunch of member's emails.