# Spam from pi-hole list?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/spam-from-pi-hole-list/82669>\
**Category:** Off topic\
**Created:** [October 7, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/spam-from-pi-hole-list/82669 "2025-10-07T16:29:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ShaunP](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@ShaunP](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/ShaunP)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/spam-from-pi-hole-list/82669/1 "2025-10-07T16:29:35Z")

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Hi, not a huge deal, but today I got spam directed to an email address that I have only ever used to donate in thanks for my pihole, so I’m hoping that there’s no leakage (sounds disgusting, sorry 😉)

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**Author:** ![rdwebdesign](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/rdwebdesign/32/51363_2.png) [@rdwebdesign](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/rdwebdesign)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/spam-from-pi-hole-list/82669/2 "2025-10-07T16:32:11Z")

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This was explained 2 months ago.

Please read this topic, explaining what happened with the GiveWP plugin and what steps were taken to solve the incident:

> [@Compromised Donor Emails: A post-mortem](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/compromised-donor-emails-a-post-mortem/81468):
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> Originally published at: [Compromised Donor Emails: A post-mortem – Pi-hole](https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/07/30/compromised-donor-emails-a-post-mortem/) What Information Was Exposed (and What Was Not) The breach is limited to names and email addresses provided during the donation process. It is important to mention that we don’t have access to or store any credit card numbers or verified names or addresses or phone numbers. Any PII is maintained directly by the card processors, Stripe or PayPal. We make it clear in the donation form that we don’t even require a val…

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**Author:** ![ShaunP](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@ShaunP](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/ShaunP)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/spam-from-pi-hole-list/82669/3 "2025-10-08T07:48:30Z")

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Thanks - I did make a quick search, but obviously failed to find those threads (I might not have looked that far back!) I’ll delete that email address with a clear conscience 😉