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I gave Atlassian my school email address as verification that I worked at a university to get a free Bitbucket account. Ten years later, they not only locked me out of the Bitbucket account and gave access to someone at the university, and then refused to tell me what they'd done, they also gave my Trello account to them.

The thing about the Trello account is that I used a non-school email account for that. I never at any point gave them information about my school account. I opened the account on the day Trello was announced, when they didn't even have paid plans. I'm guessing they were able to link me somehow, and they used that information to give my account away.

Clearly Atlassian is not a company that should ever be trusted with important data. In my case, if I had any information about grades in my account, it would have been a violation of FERPA. You can't casually hand out that information to random strangers.



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