> Re the Epik breach, the poll from a couple of days ago was overwhelmingly in favour of notifying people if their data was in the breach albeit only due to scraped WHOIS records. As such, there's a lot of people in there who had absolutely nothing to do with Epik - including me<p>This is in regards to the Epik breach [0], which Epik denied was anything more than archival data, and were unaware of any remote access breach, which caused a few of their pages to be defaced.<p>[0] <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/anonymous-leaks-gigabytes-of-data-from-epik-web-host-of-gab-and-parler/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/anony...</a>
I received an alert. While I understand the logic in sending the alert, it was a still a bit weird to receive an alert when the data is/was publicly available via WHOIS records.