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Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked by jonknee on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @02:14PM (#7510451)
What do you mean? If [email protected] is in the leaked list you know that that [email protected] is the "real" user and also is someone who has BTC.
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Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked by eli on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @02:23PM (#7510518)
There was no leak. The API allowed you to see whether a given email had an account associated, so someone churned through a big list of known email addresses to find accounts.
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