The correspondence of Elance.com users has been compromised.

This afternoon in my inbox I find a bunch of emails from Elance.com.

At first I thought that spammers decided to disguise themselves.

I went into a couple of letters - the real correspondence of customers with the client.
I wrote about this in support, now I got the answer:

Hello,

Thank you for your email.

Here is what we know so far about the Daily Summary emails that many have reported receiving earlier today, Friday, August 28.

Once a day, Elance sends an email (to those who elect to receive them) that summarizes the previous 5 messages that have occurred inside the digital Workrooms that facilitate collaboration between service providers and their clients. Such communications are typically messages that occur either in real-time between parties or are left in a bulletin board format.

Yesterday, one of our engineers made a change to the script that initiates this nightly process. The changes were tested, but the errors were not identified. As a result, last night's batch of such Daily Summary emails were initiated at 1:30am Pacific time, and unfortunately an unknown number were erroneously sent to Elance members that were neither the provider nor the client. The error was discovered at 2:30am and the process was halted by 2:50am.

We apologize for this error and any inconvenience that this issue might have caused. We will be reaching out directly to all parties affected with additional information shortly.

Additionally, for ongoing updates to the situation, please refer to this page: www.elance.com/p/trust/daily_email_update.html.

Best regards,
Steve Holm
Director, Customer Relations

All of course nothing, but lately this is the second problem with privacy on this exchange.
After the first one, I was persistently asked to change my password, although the message indicated that data on passwords, credit cards, etc. no leakage occurred.
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I feel that if there will be a third problem, then I will leave with such a leaky exchange out of harm's way.