Originally Posted by tcook052
Noticed recently while clicking twice in the email address box of MyPoints sign in page that not only my email, but at least a dozen other email address of others appear. These aren't other online names or family members in the household either, these are emails I've never seen before.
Is this just a snafu? Is anyone else seeing the same thing? Just noticed it fairly recently, within the past week and hadn't seen it up until that point.
Anyone with any guesses?
Yeah, as rbessler mentioned, (if the option is enabled) double-clicking in a text box produces a list of AutoComplete entries stored by your browser, a feature in both IE and FireFox. For a quick explanation...I know in FireFox, the feature isn't that well designed - any text box on a website has an identifier name in the HTML code of the page, and FireFox stores entries by that name...so if the identifier of the MyPoints login page is "emailaddress," logins on any other site that uses that same identifier in the code of their page will also appear. If another site, however, names their text box simply "email," FireFox will store that separately.
So, assuming that you're looking at the dropdown box that appears in IE or FireFox (you can check Tools --> Internet Options --> Content in IE, or Tools --> Options --> Privacy --> Saved Forms in FireFox), that is data that it stored locally on your computer containing previous logons either on that site, or on a site that has an e-mail login coded similarly. Was it a used computer you bought from someone? It could still contain their data.