Hacker Leaks 3.3B Emails and Yes Every Single One Is Unique

https://hackerdose.com/privacy/massive-3-3-billion-emails-leaked/

by Wasserpuncher • 2 years ago

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Wasserpuncher• 2 years ago

A hacker leaked 3.3 billion emails from multiple public breaches, because who needs privacy anymore?

MattGaiser3• 2 years ago

It is email addresses and they arguably were already leaked. He just cleaned them.

47282847• 2 years ago

Emails, or email addresses?

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jasongill• 2 years ago

Email addresses, obviously.

input_sh• 2 years ago

I 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!

Aardwolf• 2 years ago

Agree, "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• 2 years ago

A 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• 2 years ago

Seems to just be email addresses

umanwizard3• 2 years ago

Email addresses, not emails. Completely misleading title.

MattGaiser3• 2 years ago

Also, the data was already leaked. The “hacker” just cleaned it.

zero-sharp2• 2 years ago

Sure it's sloppy. But why would the title mention uniqueness if we were talking about emails?

umanwizard3• 2 years 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.

eesmith• 2 years ago

I assumed it was email messages, not email addresses, and the de-duplication was for things like mass mailings, spams, and the like.

(As one example, strip tracking urls and web bugs to identify that two messages with different bytes are auto-generated from a unique template.)

With email messages it would be possible to train based on interests, for example to get a generative AI to create more targeted phishing messages.

newhotelowner• 2 years ago

Well 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• 2 years ago

I 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”

MattGaiser3• 2 years ago

1. 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• 2 years ago

they are email address/password pairs.

poincaredisk• 2 years ago

Is 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• 2 years ago

He 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• 2 years ago

Seems like an Ai written article

pussygrabber• 2 years ago

Who 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.

Hacker Leaks 3.3B Emails and Yes Every Single One Is Unique

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