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332 Million Email Addresses Scraped from SOCRadar.io Dumped Online (hackread.com)

submitted 3 months ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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This incident, which is NOT a data breach, took place in July 2024. The announcement on cybercrime and hacker platform Breach Forums detailed that USDoD, known for previous high-profile data breaches, was responsible for scraping SOCRadar.io.

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The 14GB worth of CSV file containing only the email addresses and no passwords

So, not really that concerning?

[–] kid@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Not as much as if it contained passwords, for sure. Bu it gives a nice mailing list for phishing and so on.