May 31, 2018 in
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Have I Been Sold is a new free and open source web service that helps you find out if your email address has been sold by companies in the past.
If you received spam in the past you probably wondered how the sender of the spam message got hold of your email address. There are plenty possibilities;
you may have published your email address publicly, replied to emails, signed up for web services or an account may have been hacked that you communicated with.
Some companies sell data to brokers next to that and it is not always disclosed by those companies.
Note: The developer is involved with Diffbot.com which happens to be the "world's largest, most accurate database of people and companies". He stated that there is no affiliation between the two products, and that Have I Been Sold does not sell, distribute or share email addresses "with anyone for any reason".
Tip: We published a guide in 2016 to
set up accounts to find out which companies or services sold your information.