they brought a mailing list from a marketing firm. No hacking involved.
They used an email I only used on cryptorush, no way they had this address elsewhere.If this is true, I'm sry, but it should be clarified. Cryptorush closed not too long ago. This is weird...
I'm postive about the coin but not a fanboy and we'll call scam in big red letters if we see one all over here and Twitter.
That said, I think the problem here is Crytorush. I'll be they sold off their mailing list when they went under and once it is out there in the wild who knows who has been buying it from whom. Midas might not even have known the names sourced from Cryptorush.
Here's the Cryptorush agreement:
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. To a lawyer that Cyrptorush agreement above has more holes than Swiss cheese. To us, "personal identification" includes e-mail. But does it mean that in black letter law? Who knows? It would take a law suit in US courts to argue that. Ethics, common sense and morality play 0 role in the legal process.
Also that last sentence doesn't say anything about "family members of owners", "successors" or "as part of a bankruptcy settlement". To normal people it doesn't have to but in contract law if it doesn't say it then it isn't part of the contract. What about "untrusted affiliates"? Sounds stupid I know but it does not say that.
To be ironclad, the wording from Cryptorush should have been along these lines:
"We will not share any information whatsover about our users (including e-mail, address, national ID numbers, bankaccounts or anything of this nature) with any individual, company, entity, government, person, legal person or any other recipient under any circumstances ever in the present, past or future.The basic lesson here for everyone is that once you put something out there on the internet you have no protections re privacy no matter what the text blurb says. It sucks but it would take a major overhaul of international and national laws world-wide to fix this situation.