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Could you please tell me which forum this was posted on

by meitham 8mo ago

parable 8mo ago
I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN. It should be trivial to find it yourself, though. I also replied to someone else with the CSV headers if you're only trying to find out what exactly was included in the leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932380 Also, keep in mind that this is a partial leak. The data was scraped from some leaky endpoint which was patched out before every user could be scraped. Only users who were in the partial leak received emails (I have two accounts, only one received an email). If you're a Substack user but didn't receive an email, I'd assume you're not in the leak. Troy Hunt should load it into HIBP eventually, and those concerned can check there if they don't want to seek the leak out on their own.
- chrisjj 8mo ago
  > this is a partial leak. Substack PR probably love this. Like a gas tank has a partial leak.
  - parable 8mo ago
    This is actually a great analogy for why companies should take small data leaks seriously. A leak is a leak. Also, to clarify, I don't mean to appear as though I'm discrediting this leak or downplaying its severity. I only mentioned that it was a partial leak to offer an explanation as to why some users received emails and others didn't, as witnessme's comment seemed confused about this.
- squigz 8mo ago
  > I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN. I'm not sure this would be the case? I've seen plenty of links to content of questionable legality shared on HN.
- shawabawa3 8mo ago
  >I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN Well let's find out I did a tiny bit of research, pretty sure it's BreachForums (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreachForums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreachForums)
  - direwolf20 8mo ago
    BreachForums was shut down
    - shawabawa3 8mo ago
      Seems like every time it gets shut down it starts right back up again This source claims it's Breach forums but no idea if it's reliable https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/newsletter-platform-substack-notifies-users-of-data-breach/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/newsletter-pl...

Could you please tell me which forum this was posted on

by meitham 8mo ago

Could you please tell me which forum this was posted on

I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN. It should be trivial to find it yourself, though. I also replied to someone else with the CSV headers if you're only trying to find out what exactly was included in the leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932380 Also, keep in mind that this is a partial leak. The data was scraped from some leaky endpoint which was patched out before every user could be scraped. Only users who were in the partial leak received emails (I have two accounts, only one received an email). If you're a Substack user but didn't receive an email, I'd assume you're not in the leak. Troy Hunt should load it into HIBP eventually, and those concerned can check there if they don't want to seek the leak out on their own.

chrisjj 8mo ago
> this is a partial leak. Substack PR probably love this. Like a gas tank has a partial leak.
- parable 8mo ago
  This is actually a great analogy for why companies should take small data leaks seriously. A leak is a leak. Also, to clarify, I don't mean to appear as though I'm discrediting this leak or downplaying its severity. I only mentioned that it was a partial leak to offer an explanation as to why some users received emails and others didn't, as witnessme's comment seemed confused about this.
squigz 8mo ago
> I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN. I'm not sure this would be the case? I've seen plenty of links to content of questionable legality shared on HN.
shawabawa3 8mo ago
>I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN Well let's find out I did a tiny bit of research, pretty sure it's BreachForums (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreachForums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreachForums)
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  BreachForums was shut down
  - shawabawa3 8mo ago
    Seems like every time it gets shut down it starts right back up again This source claims it's Breach forums but no idea if it's reliable https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/newsletter-platform-substack-notifies-users-of-data-breach/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/newsletter-pl...