Over 8.5BB customer records were exposed last year; the estimate for this year is in excess of 10BB.
Then the you can see that you're 880654th out of 1.1B people on the leaderboard and maybe feel slightly better.. or worse.
Which makes me wonder, is there information that's leaked so much it's no longer "private"? Names, addresses, phone numbers, contacts lists, photos, emails, cloud documents, IP address logs, search history...It's all there, waiting to be leaked...
And why the insistence on storing information for an unlimited period of time - it should be illegal to store data above 5+ years without explicit consent from the user (after reviewing the data and clicking "I am okay with this data continuing to be stored").
Haveibeenpwned is the same but doesn’t reverse the passwords.
[0]https://www.zdnet.com/article/company-behind-leakedsource-pl...
> An investigation by infosec journalist Brian Krebs claimed that a second suspect, a US man named Jeremy Wade, was also behind the service. He was never charged
According to American prosecutors, freedom of speech prevents prosecution in America without intent to commit a crime.
[0] https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/weleakinfo-com-site-...
>(6) knowingly and with intent to defraud traffics (as defined in section 1029) in any password or similar information through which a computer may be accessed without authorization, if—
>(A) such trafficking affects interstate or foreign commerce; or
>(B) such computer is used by or for the Government of the United States;
The key text here is with intent to defraud as an element of the offense. Prosecutors in the USA must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you had intent to defraud. This language is very clear due to the first amendment and they cannot speculate nor can they say ignorance alone proves intent. Obviously my earlier post of "without intent to commit a crime" was wrong, but should have read "without intent to defraud".
Edit: I just realized that you said prosecutors told you this. My guess is they lied so that you’d do it again when they were watching.
this might be something you're looking for.