65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal

Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by ben_jones on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @04:57PM (#11810171)

The format is `${firstLetterFirstName}${lastName}${int}`.

My high school followed a similar structure, but had the graduating year as a suffix, implying that they would never be reused.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was rampant in educational institutions who have to provision emails to people with identical names all the time.

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Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by cmdrfred on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @05:39PM (#11810494)

why not use a sub domain? [email protected] for example.

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Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by kuschku on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:46PM (#11810873)

most universities where I live use either stu120691 [at] mail.uni-kiel.de, or stu120691 [at] informatik.uni-kiel.de, or allow you to choose a custom prefix for prefix [at] stu.uni-kiel.de and prefix [at] informatik.uni-kiel.de

(those addresses are mine, first the generic ID, then the generic ID [at] faculty, then prefix [at] generic (I don’t have one), then prefix [at] faculty; first comes first serve on prefixes)

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Re:65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal by staticfish on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:44PM (#11810866)

or a Gmail wildcard alias [email protected]

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