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

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 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.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 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 xX_sephir0th_Xx@hotmail.com (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.