<story><title>Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john-radio</author><text>&amp;gt; The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to know more about the nature of the lapse here. Is there a bug in Amazon where self-publishers expose their account email addresses? Or was it more like, he shared Google Map and Google Calendar content in the book, not realizing that those features exposed his real email?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrueDuality</author><text>From that line and a few others in the article Amazon doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to be involved at all. It seems like there was a Gmail account created to receive feedback, corrections, reviews, and media outreach that was also supposed to be relatively anonymous but was registered with his actual name which would be visible to anyone that he responded to at the very least, but may also show up through other account associations.</text></comment>
<story><title>Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john-radio</author><text>&amp;gt; The embarrassing security lapse is linked to a book he published on Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the account’s maps and calendar profiles.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to know more about the nature of the lapse here. Is there a bug in Amazon where self-publishers expose their account email addresses? Or was it more like, he shared Google Map and Google Calendar content in the book, not realizing that those features exposed his real email?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArunRaja</author><text>&amp;gt; Email Id with unique id leaked&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the unique id here ? SSN number &amp;#x2F; military id,...?</text></comment>