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I just got the email from haveibeenpwned. F Trello.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This should be a locally installed program with a licensing usb dongle or electronic license.

So much company secrets in there...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do they do with this information? Sell to databrokers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah mostly for spam but the dataset is massive. 15M emails + real names + usernames is pretty useful for any cold emailing like recruitment and product spam. That being said, using datasets like this legally is a no-no but it's almost impossible to prove either way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh no not my email adress and username

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I just got this email from Google while reading this. A funny coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where they sell these data? I want to check if my password is compromised..

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Dang, the hackers know what I'm planning to do tomorrow.

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