2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned

06:41 - 05 Nov 2025

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I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,


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