Coil, a micro-payments platform similar to Flatter, has leaked some of its usersโ email addresses to others in an email. The company has sent an email to all its users regarding a โprivacy policyโ update. Itย included over 1,000 email addresses of other users in the CC section of the sent email! This act was soon apologized to by Coilโs CEO.
Coil Leaks Users Email Addresses

The Coil is a micro-payments platform supported by Ripple and is more like Flatter. It rewards content creators for drawing traffic and adds a source of income to them.
The company has updated its โPrivacy Policyโ yesterday, which was notified to users through bulk email, which had a โhuman error,โ causing the CEO to apologize soon.
Itโs seen that the bulk email notifications regarding the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy update sent to users have included the email addresses of others in the CC section.
This means all those email recipients mentioned in the CC section will get a copy of those emails. But whatโs being considered here is the leakage of othersโ email addresses, which shouldnโt be disclosed.
As observed by BleepingComputer, there were at least 1,000 email addresses of others mentioned in the CC section. The company was soon to realize this mistake and came up with an apology from its CEO.
In the following email sent to all users, Stefan Thomas, CEO of Coil, apologized for this act without having any CC email addresses.
He termed this as unfortunate and said: โdue to a human error related to how we interface with our mailing list provider, several usersโ email addresses were populated alongside yours.โ
Further, โWeโre deeply sorry and hope you can forgive us for this mistake. Weโre here to help you with any concerns or issues you may have as a result of this error.โ