Originally Posted by AdultKing

That's incorrect. Troy Hunt runs Have I Been Pwned? and as a well known security researcher and Microsoft fellow I am sure he's not harvesting email addresses.

It's ill informed crap like you just wrote that makes the Internet a more dangerous place, because when security specialists develop tools to protect you all you can do is try to tear them down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hunt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_Been_Pwned%3F