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Ask HN: A Large Site with my data was just breached, how do I track it down?

2 pointsby pain_perduabout 7 years ago
I have a friend who works in the infosec industry and he recently alerted me (by sharing the image at https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;NiiMX) that my information has been leaked online. Now I am pretty security conscious myself and tend not to give my email or phone number to sites&#x2F;apps I don&#x27;t trust (I even use anonymous&#x2F;disposable email and phone tools when possible) unless absolutely necessary so I think this was probably a large breach.<p>I asked Troy Hunt and he said the data didn&#x27;t look familiar to him. With just the info contained in this image, is there any smart way for me to try and figure out where it came from? I have obviously redacted my last name and phone number from this post.<p>For reasons I do not understand (maybe due to NDA?) my friend is unable to tell me where he got the data.

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