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Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by PuffinBlue on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:20AM (#16465031)
That might be even more interesting actually. Seeing as you could identify the exact site that was breached. That sort of data would actually be quite valuable to this project I would surmise.

I also have a similar system now as you do, but really only for higher value accounts, not the niff naff forums stuff. And like you it's all randomly generated unique passwords so pretty safe.

None of my site specific emails have been breached yet, which is good as that would mean a major global provider had been breached.

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Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by icebraining on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:48AM (#16465604)
The project seems to know where the data comes from, at least in my case it identified each:

    Email 	 	Pwned sites
    dropbox@... 	Dropbox
    ffshrine@... 	Final Fantasy Shrine
    github@... 	 	GeekedIn
    linkedin@... 	LinkedIn
    patreon@... 	Patreon
    tumblr@... 	 	tumblr
(The Github one was using their OAuth - which kinda screws with the traceability)
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Re:2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added by akerro on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:38AM (#16465547)
> That might be even more interesting actually. Seeing as you could identify the exact site that was breached. That sort of data would actually be quite valuable to this project I would surmise.

That's why I do it.

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