<story><title>DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign</title><url>https://trust.docusign.com/en-us/personal-safeguards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I presume canary is an established term in this context but since I don&amp;#x27;t know what it is I don&amp;#x27;t understand your service. It sounds good though.</text></item><item><author>graystevens</author><text>This is the exact reason I started building Breach Canary[0], so that businesses can be alerted as soon as their user data is used in a way they wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect it to be. We produce authentic users with real working email addresses and phone numbers, so that as soon as they are contacted, you know someone has a copy of your userbase and is using it for reason x.&lt;p&gt;We have already started seeing a tonne of DocuSign phishing emails as others have mentioned. They were already a popular target for phishing users but now with very realistic documents the users are expecting? Nightmare.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;BreachCanary.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;BreachCanary.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Loic</author><text>It is coming from the canary birds in the coal mines or in submarines[0]. They have a higher sensibility to CO than humans. This is now part of the common language to say that you sacrifice an animal or &amp;quot;something&amp;quot; to get early warning of something possibly more dangerous.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sentinel_species#Historical_examples&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sentinel_species#Historical_ex...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DocuSign email address database breached and used for phishing campaign</title><url>https://trust.docusign.com/en-us/personal-safeguards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kiro</author><text>I presume canary is an established term in this context but since I don&amp;#x27;t know what it is I don&amp;#x27;t understand your service. It sounds good though.</text></item><item><author>graystevens</author><text>This is the exact reason I started building Breach Canary[0], so that businesses can be alerted as soon as their user data is used in a way they wouldn&amp;#x27;t expect it to be. We produce authentic users with real working email addresses and phone numbers, so that as soon as they are contacted, you know someone has a copy of your userbase and is using it for reason x.&lt;p&gt;We have already started seeing a tonne of DocuSign phishing emails as others have mentioned. They were already a popular target for phishing users but now with very realistic documents the users are expecting? Nightmare.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;BreachCanary.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;BreachCanary.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>Canaries were used in mines to signal pockets of unbreathable gas; they would die before the humans giving them an opportunity to escape.&lt;p&gt;Canary has developed into a standard term for warnings which are detecting the danger allowing mitigation as opposed to predicting the danger which would allow avoidance.</text></comment>