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I don't understand... The password is the secret, right? If your mastercard login ends up in some breach, your password is protecting. You without or without vanish urls, if you have strong passwords you'll be fine.


Cybercrime has a logistics pipeline.

Harvesting potential targets is one part of it i.e. establishing someone was using an email address is the entry point. There's a lot of emails, so associating them to any particular website is right near the start. Establishing that they're active increases their value further.

The people responding to Troy here for example are technically doing that: they clearly monitor the email or still use it, so addresses which respond to up in value.




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