New breach: Japanese firm Toumei had over 100M records and 10GB of data breached this month. Included were 77k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and phone numbers. 17% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://www.toumei.co.jp/news/2023/10/information_privacy/
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@haveibeenpwned whenever I use your site I get reminded of all the awesome services I used waayyyyy back! Thank you ^ ^
@haveibeenpwned So, according to https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-or-bot/, 83 % of these people were likely bots. 🤖
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It's fascinating to see how creative people can get with breached data. Of course there's all the nasty stuff (phishing, identity theft, spam), but there are also some amazingly positive uses for data illegally taken from someone else's system. When I first built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), my mantra

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