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If your theory is correct, would we not expect to see the account names be a bit more random? That is to say, these are in alphabetical order and clearly comin

If your theory is correct, would we not expect to see the account names be a bit more random? That is to say, these are in alphabetical order and clearly coming from a large list because the letters in each progressive account are similar: Bille97... Billel... Billen... Billet... Billew... Isn't it unlikely that so many alphabetically-similar accounts from the third-party site would use the same password for dropbox?

yen223 12y ago
It is very likely that they have X million passwords leaked from other sites, and they only chose to release emails that begin with "bi-".
asdfaoeu 12y ago
Using http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7803135/1_million_email_list http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7803135/1_million_email_list to give the relative frequency of email addresses I'd estimate they have a total of around 30k addresses -> % cat 1000000\ email\ list.txt | sed 's/, */\n/g' | grep "@"| sort | uniq | wc -l 835694 -> % cat 1000000\ email\ list.txt | sed 's/, */\n/g' | grep "@"| sort | uniq | grep -i "^b[e-i]" | wc -l 11160 irb(main):001:0> (835694.0 / 11160) * 400 => 29953.189964157707
kolev 12y ago
What if the guy created accounts so that people can check those are "real" and collect free bitcoins? Picking similar emails is to try to trick us into believing that he has 7 million of those.