Tag: email
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Why Does Have I Been Pwned Contain “Fake” Email Addresses?
Why Does Have I Been Pwned Contain “Fake” Email Addresses? Normally, when someone sends feedback like this, I ignore it, but it happens often enough that it deserves an explainer, because the answer is really, really simple. So simple, in fact, that it should be evident to the likes of Bruce, who decided his misunderstanding…
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2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the “2 Billion Email Addresses” headline to be hyperbolic, it’d need to be exaggerated or overstated – and it isn’t. It’s rounded up from the more precise number of…