After almost seven years of membership I have been forced to delete my Plaxo account due to security concerns.
Yesterday I received notification that “Artur” had accepted my connection. This is a highly unusual name for Australia and if I’d ever met an Artur I would have remembered.
Plaxo support guessed this was an outstanding invitation sent in 2007–2008.
“As per our records, you had sent out many invitations and connection requests to the contacts in the year 2007 and 2008. I guess the connection request to the Plaxo member “Artur” was also sent during that period.”
This is their response to the claim of a security breach.
Plaxo has been a wonderful service, providing a central service for the notification of address changes. Sadly I’ll lose out on that now but save myself further privacy violations.