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Hot Topic - 56,904,909 breached accounts (haveibeenpwned.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if they’re burner email addresses, fake names etc. provided to take advantage of promotions - then it really doesn’t matter.

If anything, it’s a good thing to salt the dataset to make it less valuable to would-be ne’er-do-wells.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree wholeheartedly, but how many on that list do you think are actually burners, and how many are kids?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

The optimist in me would like to think that a significant portion of them would be ‘dead’ emails, as kids would have used cringey addresses like [email protected] (I know I did! 😅); but honestly - given how pervasively online Gen Z/A are (and relatively tech illiterate), they’re probably almost all valid addresses.