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A comment on Ask HN: I found a pretty extreme data leak and I'm not sure what to do. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: I found a pretty extreme data leak and I'm not su... by _jvqm on Thursday May 19, 2022 @07:56PM (#31441763)
I will tell an anonymous person to do this, but I’m not sure if Troy Hunt cares about a random one-of-thousands service and a few thousand affected users.
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Re:Ask HN: I found a pretty extreme data leak and I'm not su... by michaelt on Thursday May 19, 2022 @08:04PM (#31441808)
A few minutes ago, you were calling it a "pretty extreme data leak" and "millions of dollars" so I think he'd at least know how to validate the leak and enter it into HIBP.
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Re:Ask HN: I found a pretty extreme data leak and I'm not su... by _jvqm on Thursday May 19, 2022 @08:07PM (#31441831)
These statements stand unchanged. The usage of "pretty extreme" could be regarding the "quality" of data, not quantity. Compared to the usual data leaks on HIBP it seems like an occurrence that happens frequently and the affected user count is abysmally low. Some anonymous person might fire off an email to Troy Hunt regardless.
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