Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720

Article

  • Public Notion pages expose names, photos, and email addresses of all editors in metadata.
  • Behavior is documented in Notion’s help pages but buried and easy to miss.
  • Affects anyone who has ever edited a page that was later made public.
  • Issue has reportedly existed for at least five years.

Discussion

  • Notion’s Max Schoening responded directly: acknowledged it’s not good enough and fixes are in progress.
  • One HN commenter says they were deanonymized via this exact bug ~5 years ago.
  • General sentiment: Notion has drifted from useful tool to ‘AI everything app’ with declining trust.
  • Commenter criticism of the tweet itself for being AI-written drew a pointed reply.

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Added Apr 20, 2026
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