[madez]

Think about agencies, not private actors — then this site makes a perfect target. Recruit and subvert are basic tasks for these agenices, and to do so you need information about the candidates. This website had probably a significantly higher proportion of interesting prospects.

[cautious_int]

But what information was even held on the website. Wasn't it just a public listing of usernames with the score.

According to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181773 then don't even store emails anymore.