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		awj on Dec 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been co... If you wanted to collect likely-valid email addresses to sell to spammers, this would be a good way to go about it. I doubt they are, but can understand the suspicion.

beering on Dec 4, 2013 | [–]

They already have 150M+ valid email addresses from the breach if they wanted to spam people.

wfunction on Dec 4, 2013 | [–]

I doubt they are too, but they should be really proving it somehow.

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