Where is my profile picture taken from?

[alejandrorangll]

I've never changed or added any picture onto my profile picture, however there's one there. So, I just wanted to know how GitHub got access to that picture, I think I only use that picture in my WhatsApp profile picture.

[linuxlawson]

You must have added it or else it wouldn't be there.
Unless someone else had that exact same username in the past, but even then, its highly unlikely their profile picture would remain.

[alejandrorangll]

Except I didn’t and it’s impossible that anyone else created an account with the same email and it’s not a random picture, is actually my picture.

[SharfShiplo]

GitHub may use Gravatar to fetch people's profile picture. You may have a Gravatar config/account if you used Wordpress in the past.

Basically, on a Gravatar account, an image is associated with an email. Services like GitHub can publicly query Gravatar to get the image associated with an email.

Try to connect on Gravatar (with Wordpress credentials I think) to modify/remove the image.

[alejandrorangll]

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

This is exactly what happened:
Some evidence here