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Troy Hunt on Twitter: “I don't like getting emails from me”

26 pointsby lightlyusedover 3 years ago

3 comments

shaknaover 3 years ago
&gt; 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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;anonymous-leaks-gigabytes-of-data-from-epik-web-host-of-gab-and-parler&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;2021&#x2F;09&#x2F;anony...</a>
below43over 3 years ago
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&#x2F;was publicly available via WHOIS records.
dredmorbiusover 3 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.eu&#x2F;troyhunt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1439708848659464193" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nitter.eu&#x2F;troyhunt&#x2F;status&#x2F;1439708848659464193</a>