Originally Posted by AdultKing

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 ‏