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Agreed, mentioning the login name of the compromised account seems really unprofessional and unnecessary.


This was a really effective anti-ad for Hudson Rock.


The entry seems written by someone lacking maturity.

The candor in the screencap'd chat conversation is novel, and will probably drive clicks.

But in its unedited form serves as dirty laundry, and including the language from the threat actor is both unnecessary and inappropriate.

I can't tell if the threat actor agreeing HR would have potentially helped avert this problem is a good endorsement or not.

On one hand testimony from a threat of a product's effectiveness would be good, but on the other, this is a little up close and personal of an endorsement from someone actively ransoming so many companies and putting so much data at risk.


> But in its unedited form serves as dirty laundry, and including the language from the threat actor is both unnecessary and inappropriate.

A threat actor has intent to hold a company ransom for $20 million and your first reaction is to feign offense that the word 'retarded' appeared in a chat log? These are not charm school graduates.


> The entry seems written by someone lacking maturity.

Agree with that.


You saw someone on the internet use a bad word and you felt offended?


Generally, I like the page and the openness of the API behind it. It is much more common for people to talk about haveibeenpwned as a source for leaked credentials, but the site claims to have over 20 million computer entries from log stealers ... and every computer has XX password.. But yes probably this was written in a hurry to catch the wave?




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