Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts

Found on Krebs on Security on Thursday, 03 September 2020
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Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks.

To make matters worse, links included in emails sent through Sendgrid are obfuscated (mainly for tracking deliverability and other metrics), so it is not immediately clear to recipients where on the Internet they will be taken when they click.

The only good thing about services like Sendgrid is that you can send users there to keep their newsletters off your own mailservers.