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by MertsA 889 days ago
It's reasonable for displaying with nothing more than knowing the email on haveibeenpwned.com but for everyone subscribed to notifications it would have been very helpful to include the source in the notification email and that would have avoided the biggest part of the privacy implications. Right now for a lot of people the latest breach notification email is unactionable because there's no way to figure out what account may have been breached. For me personally I received the notification but when I checked the actual list directly, not only was it immediately clear that it wasn't an account I care about, it was also a password that I've used but never with the account listed. Had the email from HIBP included just a tiny bit of additional information I wouldn't have needed to waste my time on it, especially when it seems that this breach has some unknown amount of bogus data in it.