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by Arcsech 3489 days ago
It does require email confirmation before showing "sensitive" data, like if an email was in the Ashley Madison or AdultFriendFinder breaches.
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Which in and of itself is silly. The raw dumps are already available to everyone, blackhats included. Personally I'm tempted to make a site that just lists it by domain and stuff. I found several people at my company with Ashley Madison accounts using a quick grep.
Even so, raising the barrier of entry to this data will prevent some people from casually looking up their peers. It's worth doing.
Casually looking up your peers is exactly what you should be doing in my opinion. But I'm not a good person and I'd rather see details like that plastered everywhere. Be an idiot, get what you deserve.
I have a 2004 Gmail account which people like to use as a fake email address when signing up to things. So my address is in the Ashley Madison leak. This is not something I'm comfortable with people knowing without context, so even if it was a policy of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" I'd get harmed.
You must be a blast to work with.