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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by selcuka on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:52AM (#45844120)
It doesn't have to be literally the service name. Can be any unique alphanumeric suffix you make up randomly. As long as you use a password manager you don't have to remember it.
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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by fragmede on Friday November 07, 2025 @03:54AM (#45844686)
Indeed, it needs to be more than just the company name if you want it to be useful later. If the email address used is [email protected], any idiot could guess company. But receiving email to [email protected] is clearly gotta be from them, or they got hacked.
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