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And the local pawn shop has expenses too. Just because they have to pay rent and electricity costs does not make selling a stolen item legal.
by w3rhn2j34oh5o 7y ago
And the local pawn shop has expenses too. Just because they have to pay rent and electricity costs does not make selling a stolen item legal.
- mfkp 7y agoThere's a difference - he's not selling the leaked passwords. He's selling the information that a password has been leaked for a certain account. You can't buy stolen passwords from the site, so it's perfectly legal.
- w3rhn2j34oh5o 7y agoI don't think it is that clear -- he is selling access to a data set containing PII (email address or account names). Its stolen data. One can make a case that free and open access to this data set is a common good, however once money is involved, one is conducting business with data that one did not legally obtain. It is not 'perfectly legal'.
- Aeolun 7y agoI don’t think the API ever returns that information. You need to already have the email address to be queried.