Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by wepple on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:41AM (#43026437)

> Threat actors buy vulnerabilities that fit into existing business processes

Selling crazy stories to the media is as old as time.

This vuln would give you a lookup table from email->YT

SELECT * FROM table WHERE email LIKE “%.gov”

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by tsunamifury on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:03AM (#43026679)

And? So what. You can spam them?

Come on.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by alt227 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:21AM (#43026837)

Or spear-phish, with a high degree of accuracy knowing the target.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by wepple on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:31PM (#43027555)

You don’t think there are folks with content they’d very much not like to be directly associated with them? Comments, videos, likes, etc

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by nickelpro on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:42PM (#43027663)

There's no existing black market of criminals extorting politicians and celebrities over Youtube comments (also how you go from an email address to an identity is itself iffy).

You are imagining a potential market, the exploits are priced against markets that are real and pay out today. Security researchers aren't traveling salesmen going around to every shady character on the internet and pitching them on the potential of a new criminal enterprise.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by UncleMeat on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:37PM (#43027621)

And so what's going to happen? Are there blackmailing rings that are in active need of ways of tying youtube comments to work accounts that are paying out the nose?

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by wepple on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:46AM (#43037041)

You don’t think the daily mail would buy a story about how [email protected] posted a comment in support of the KKK?

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