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Comment by liedra | Hacker News Reader

I have an io9 account (that's a Gawker site) but my email isn't showing up in a grep of the db dumps. Perhaps this is not the entire database after all? (I didn't use Facebook Connect.)

I must admit I'm a bit intrigued as to why mine's not there. Anyone else in this boat?

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From the readme:

   After gaining access to gawkers MySQL database we stumble upon a huge
   table containing ~1,500,000 users. After a few days of dumping we
   decided that 1.3 million was enough.

Thanks, I must have missed that! I also saw an additional claim on the "Gnosis explains" article:

"The actual database size is 1,247,897 rows, which is 80+% of their database." - http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-gawker-hacker-gnosi...

I wish I could win a raffle with that sort of luck though! ;)

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