More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan

Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by mathrawka on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:00PM (#13072975)

Hey Eren,

It's not like that email addresses are that hard to find when they are listed on websites publically...

  ereny*gdir*n[@AT]gm*il

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by bisby on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:10PM (#13073078)

Indeed. Literally all you are providing to the site is an email address. I could check my coworkers' email addresses. They have a list, I'm checking to see if something is on the list.

Any site that requires you to provide an email address and password (or any other "verifiable info") to check is probably a scam.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by m00dy on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:11PM (#13073083)

It requires manual interaction and obviously not scalable.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by mathrawka on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @02:31PM (#13073859)

It's pretty easy to automate an email harvester.

Then again just <firstname><lastname>@(gmail|yahoo|hotmail).com works for a lot of people.

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Re:More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan by komali2 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:22PM (#13074358)

I'm convinced adding my middle initial to my email has been the most effective spam prevention technique I've implemented.

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