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Originally Posted by freecartoonporn
and besides, why he needs to collect email addresses ? hes already got like billion+ valid email addresses.
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Thank you.
He also has millions of invalid email addresses in the database.
Hackers who sold these dumps on the black market used to pad them out with made up addresses in the same way spam list sellers used to do 20 years ago.
If you make up an email address and it comes up as Pwned that's simply because the email address has been used in the way described above.
Troy Hunt is an acclaimed security researcher and has world wide respect in the Internet Security sphere. He's advised Governments, companies and even commissions of inquiry.
He makes big money from his well regarded courses, his directorships and his work for various organisations. It's laughable to suggest that he would risk all that by building his own spam database.
Anyone in this thread who has suggested he has nefarious intent obviously doesn't follow anyone of note with regard to security research.
For those interested in becoming more informed, here are some security related Twitter accounts to follow:
https://twitter.com/blackroomsec
https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
https://twitter.com/ericgeller
https://twitter.com/runasand
https://twitter.com/savagejen
https://twitter.com/evacide
https://twitter.com/shehackspurple
https://twitter.com/L_AGalloway
https://twitter.com/swagitda_
https://twitter.com/HydeNS33k
https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog
https://twitter.com/briankrebs
https://twitter.com/aprilwright
https://twitter.com/theroxyd
https://twitter.com/Fox0x01
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity
https://twitter.com/IanColdwater
https://twitter.com/vixentael
https://twitter.com/rmitera
https://twitter.com/KseniaDmitrieva
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Herrera_
https://twitter.com/gynvael