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parabletoday at 8:04 AM3 repliesview on HN

I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN. It should be trivial to find it yourself, though. I also replied to someone else with the CSV headers if you're only trying to find out what exactly was included in the leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932380

Also, keep in mind that this is a partial leak. The data was scraped from some leaky endpoint which was patched out before every user could be scraped. Only users who were in the partial leak received emails (I have two accounts, only one received an email). If you're a Substack user but didn't receive an email, I'd assume you're not in the leak. Troy Hunt should load it into HIBP eventually, and those concerned can check there if they don't want to seek the leak out on their own.


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shawabawa3today at 11:00 AM

>I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN

Well let's find out

I did a tiny bit of research, pretty sure it's BreachForums (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreachForums)

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chrisjjtoday at 10:09 AM

> this is a partial leak.

Substack PR probably love this. Like a gas tank has a partial leak.

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squigztoday at 10:23 AM

> I'm fairly sure even mentioning the name of the forum isn't allowed on HN.

I'm not sure this would be the case? I've seen plenty of links to content of questionable legality shared on HN.