Originally Posted by Randy Petersen

Aviatrix :
I have no idea what this problem may be. I do know that we have proudly guarded the gates of your privacy for a long number of years but recently did transfer that type of responsibility elsewhere. While there is some attention here to blame IB, I have asked their President as well as JohnMcQ to look in to this and report back to either me or the community on this thread. While i suspect there may be some dramatic antics by two members posting here, i do know that anything related to your privacy requires mine and anyone involved with FlyerTalk their highest priority.

I do hope we will be able to identify any actions that may have caused this but let's be reasonable and fair – there are any number of reasons these days that email addresses may be available including some viruses that attack email clients of some of our members thus making available anything in a member's email inbox as addresses.

I really don't know but know that there can be any number of reasons and from what limited powers we have in the tech area will devote both Joshua and Tim to see if there are any telltale signs from this end.

Again, i have invited IB forward to address this and let's hear what they might know.