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Hacker Leaks 3.3B Emails and Yes Every Single One Is Unique
- Wasserpuncher 2y agoA hacker leaked 3.3 billion emails from multiple public breaches, because who needs privacy anymore?
- MattGaiser 2y agoIt is email addresses and they arguably were already leaked. He just cleaned them.
- 47282847 2y agoEmails, or email addresses? …
- jasongill 2y agoEmail addresses, obviously.
- input_sh 2y agoI mean it's accurate, but I definitely wouldn't call it obvious due to poor writing. > Hacker Leaks 3.3 Billion Emails and Yes Every Single One Is Unique Okay, so emails? > A staggering 3.3 billion unique emails were leaked in an underground forum. Still points to emails? > Imagine waking up to find your email address among the 3.3 billion unique addresses floating around the dark reaches of the internet. Ah, email addresses actually!
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- Aardwolf 2y agoAgree, "email contents" is exactly what I read the title as as well. 3.3B email addresses isn't as impressive if it isn't with other info like passwords or accounts > Oh, and in case you’re wondering, this represents about one out of every four individuals on Earth. I thought there were 8 billion people, not 13B
- magicalhippo 2y agoA staggering 3.3 billion unique email addresses were gathered from compromised websites. Yet the author switches like every other time, demonstrating they have no idea what an email actually is.
- Workaccount2 2y agoSeems to just be email addresses
- School-Cotton 2y agoEmail addresses, not emails. Completely misleading title.
- MattGaiser 2y agoAlso, the data was already leaked. The “hacker” just cleaned it.
- zero-sharp 2y agoSure it's sloppy. But why would the title mention uniqueness if we were talking about emails?
- School-Cotton 2y ago> why would the title mention uniqueness if we were talking about emails? Why wouldn’t it? Doesn’t the concept of uniqueness apply to emails just like it does to email addresses? I don’t understand your point.
- zero-sharp 2y agoEmail contents and email addresses are both text. Yes, the concept still applies. The point is that email contents are almost never the same to begin with. If we're including the timestamp, then every email is almost unique by default. Mentioning that the email addresses are unique is making the point that we've identified just as many people [1], which is interesting. The statement "these 3.3 billion emails are unique" is much less interesting, because we've identified messages and not people. Also, people are usually more concerned with the information in the email rather than the count. Most/a lot of the value of an email comes from the information in it. If I were to release 3.3 billion emails between random low-profile office workers (let's say) which contain nothing interesting, I'm not so sure that would make a headline. [1] just as many or THEREABOUT*
- rational_indian 2y agoWhy would anyone assume Hacker news titles are maximally interesting? In practice they often aren't. I am with the OP on this one. Also 3.3 billion unique emails are strictly more interesting than just the addresses since an email includes adresseses and a subject line by definition.
- newhotelowner 2y agoWell he didn't leak it. It was already leaked. He just collected all the emails from the previous breaches and showing how bad the leaks are.
- xyst 2y agoI used “hide my email” many times in the past and recently transitioned to my own mail server which allows me to catch all emails. Might download the set later and see if any of my aliased accounts are “pwned”
- MattGaiser 2y ago1. Email addresses, not emails. 2. It’s just cleaning data from prior leaks. It doesn’t seem like anything new has been leaked? 3. Do people consider their email address all that private? I list most of mine publicly.
- londons_explore 2y agothey are email address/password pairs.
- poincaredisk 2y agoIs there any reason to suspect every single one is valid? I have some experience with breached password collections, and at least 80% of entries is fake (even more for larger collections).
- NKosmatos 2y agoHe didn’t leak them, he just collected whatever is circulating around, cleaned it (with a regex expression used by Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned) and then distributed. The post is not clear, but from the screenshot of BreachForums it seems to be email AND password, not just emails.
- forgot_user1234 2y agoSeems like an Ai written article
- pussygrabber 2y agoWho really cares? e-mail like SMS and phonecalls is 99% e-generated garbage. With my phone, if you're not in the directory you have to leave voicemail. If you leave voicemail then based on what the voicemail is, I might or might not respond or I might just block the number. With email, everything is automatically reported as spam unless it's in the whitelist. No exceptions. SMS is harder to deal with but I can and do report SMS spam.