"Zapier to monitor email inbox and then extract the code" - I hit this exact wall, and ended up building the missing piece myself. The agent gets its own managed address on our domain, and one call blocks until the verification email arrives and it is automatically parsed for OTPs/code/magic link. Available at https://sente.run/
The agent sees which civs are playing in the game that is being analyzed, and pulls season updates and builds from pros specific to those civs and it adds them to the prompt :)
Not saying it does not occur in tech in general, but there is a difference in scale between selling the data and abusing it for personal reasons. The examples you provided are exclusively the latter.
The mentioned employee sold access to 4,887 email accounts.
People who still don’t understand why people pay for Apple products really lack basic piece of wisdom, making their opinion less valuable. Yet they still boast about this particular misunderstanding of theirs.
It's not so much "Startup News" but new technology coverage and technical articles.
"Startup News" sounds more like stuff you'd read at Tech Crunch which are more trendy and fruitless IMO compared with articles often found here on HN.