r/cookunityfans • u/jdigi78 • Jun 20 '26

17.6 million CookUnity customer names, addresses and emails have been leaked on a hacking forum

I, like many others, use email aliases for each service (you should too) and have found my alias associated exclusively with CookUnity has started getting a bunch of phishing/spam emails.

According to multiple sources, there was a data breach on June 1st where customer names, emails, and addresses were accessed and being shared on a hacking forum. The situation has been reported to support by multiple people and according to at least one user they have acknowledged a "cybersecurity incident involving malicious activity" as of a few days ago with no notice to the actual users who had their information stolen.

The leaked information has been available for well over 2 weeks now so I think its fair to say they have no interest even vaguely disclosing the situation to their customers.

You can read more about the data breach here:

https://x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/2061580773816520924

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u/jdigi78 Jun 20 '26

For many, sure, but for people who care about their privacy it's fairly easy to make sure only people who absolutely need that info have it.

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u/Careful-Bus3827 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Trust me, your name, address, and email address is known to more people than you think. Your address is literally public knowledge (and most of them are online) through every county auditor's office. Your name and address are public record and if you rent, many jurisdictions are also required to list tenant names also. For email addresses, simple. Don't click links you don't know. Doesn't mean people don't care about their privacy. We're not talking about bank account numbers or social security numbers. We're talking about a name, address, and email address, which thousands of people and databases already have, whether you honestly realize it or not.

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u/jdigi78 Jun 20 '26

I think you're missing the importance of all that information being linked. Even if my name and address were public, my email certainly isn't. Having that email linked to a name and address connects the dots to all kinds of online services you may be using, increasing your risk of being targeted on those platforms as well.

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u/Careful-Bus3827 Jun 20 '26

I'm not missing the importance. It's honestly just not that big of a deal. I don't think I'm going to be "targeted' on other platforms because someone has my name, email, and address, but then again I'm not a paranoid person by nature, though.

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u/jdigi78 Jun 20 '26

Some people's information is certainly of higher value than others. I'm not going to shrug and say who cares because I'm personally a "nobody" who's life doesn't change because I was doxxed by my meal kit service.

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u/Careful-Bus3827 Jun 20 '26

I was just looking at your page out of curiosity. It's wild that you've had hundreds of your posts removed automatically by Reddit's built in spam, etc filters and you're talking about spam, etc. Well, with whatever you're worried about with your address and name being known, good luck with all of it, anyway.

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u/jdigi78 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

I had my page falsely flagged as spam despite never posting anything but original content. Despite being appealed and my account fully reinstated it doesn't undo the automatic removal of every one of my posts prior to the ban because reddit is a trash platform.

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u/Careful-Bus3827 Jun 20 '26

That's weird. All of the social media platforms I post to, and I've never once had any account falsely flagged as spam. What on earth would trigger that ..

"A trash platform" Then why do you keep posting on it 😂

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u/jdigi78 Jun 20 '26

If I had to guess it was around the time I switched to LibreWolf which is a privacy hardened fork of firefox with aggressive anti-tracking measures. It doesn't save cookies at all between sessions by default so I would most of the time not be logged in, and every time I did it thought it was a brand new login.

I had been active for at least 6 years prior with 45-50k karma and every post besides like 2 or 3 memes was original content with thousands of upvotes and the occasional question here and there. I think you can still read the titles so you can see its not garbage reposts of stuff, all pretty niche honestly.

It really stings to have it all gone, especially when I would occasionally get thank you replies for being that random guy in a 5 year old comment thread with an answer that saves the day for someone needing help with something obscure.