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Yeah this has been a common attack since as early as I can remember. Company goes bust? Wait for their domain to expire then register/catch-all and start seeing what mail you get from websites to see where there’s accounts using that domain. Also plenty of more targeted methods too.



I wonder if it would be useful to use Have I Been Pwned to find a list of accounts on websites using that domain.




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