alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't seem that confusing. The blog post says that they "proactively communicated with all impacted customers" not that they've only emailed impacted customers. Recieving an email doesn't imply you were affected, just that the lack of all email saying "you were affected" means you were not impacted by this event.
In the event you had closed your account a year ago they may have deleted your information from their systems. No way for you to be impacted, but also no way to tell you that, so the lack of the email is the message in that case.
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> In the event you had closed your account a year ago they may have deleted your information from their systems.
Given what I know about data life cycle implementations there is a very good chance that that data was still there unless the GP explicitly requested it be deleted.
Companies tend to hang on to all kinds of data that they shouldn't have.
The fact that they received an email is a first indication that it wasn't deleted.
The fact an email was sent from their system implies they kept at least the email. from there one could assume they may have kept more data than the email, I would also be confused, especially if I only was emailed after the incident