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That 16B password story (a.k.a. "data troll")

Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it's mostly what I expected it to be, I've just added it to HIBP where I've called it "Data Troll", and I'm going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes: Headlines one-upping each other

But that initial story gained so much traction and entered the mainstream media to the extent that many publications directed people to HIBP, and inevitably, there was a bunch of searching done to figure out what the service actually was. So we had a chat about this trove, and the first thing he made clear was that this isn't a single source of exposure, but rather different infostealer data sets that have been publicly exposed this year. We'll never know for sure, but I betcha the decrease is even greater; I doubt additional corpuses to the tune of that many billion would continue to add new email addresses, and the duplication ratio would increase.

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