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eppur_se_muova

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1. How do we know they aren't lying ? ShinyHunters sent me an email threatening to release a bunch of stuff it had on me...

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2026, 08:02 PM

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.... stuff which I knew for a fact didn't even exist. This is the lazy way to extort -- scare people into paying up to prevent damage they can't actually do.

ETA: I strongly suspect that same message was sent out to everyone on a long address list, Nigerian Price style, hoping for a few lucky bites.

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