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Probably not the best time to say this, but it's surprisingly easy to go through a collection with items and grab every email along with the usernames.

https://archive.org/metadata/naturally_a_girl/metadata

One way or another, there was going to be someone who would take loads of emails with a username attached to it. A bit intrigued by how the hacker compromised the database and got the passwords.


Damn, I had no idea about this. Definitely would've changed some things had I known that emails were public.

This honestly seems like a bit of a design flaw.

Yeah, they have ignored everyone's concerns about the email thing. https://github.com/internetarchive/iaux/issues/892

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