u-Bob

You are missing the point. The important issue here is not that spam (which is annoying but can be dealt with), but the fact that those spammers have access to the info affiliates supplied when they joined other affiliate programs.

So as others pointed out, there are 2 possibilities. Either they bought the dbs from those affiliate programs or they hacked the dbs.

In this case, Nicky said Eurorevenue has nothing to do with it and Nicky has always been a straight shooter. So the question becomes: did the spammers hack a few affiliate programs? Did the spammers buy the info from people who hacked into a few affiliate programs? If the spammers or the people they bought the info from hacked into those affiliate programs, how did they get in? Is there another bug in NATS that can be exploited to gain access to affiliate profiles or did they gain access in another way? If they gained access in another way, what kind of access did they manage to get?