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Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow you to map a location or search corporate IP spaces, etc. It is inevitable, however gray the legalities are. These services are going to start appearing tomorrow with certainty, and they're going to get attention.

And we know already that there is a lot of confirmed data in there. At least some of the data is unequivocally true, and the data in this latest release feels very organic.




I don't understand why you're being downvoted here. Sites like you describe will undoubtedly pop up around this dataset.


Denial is a powerful thing, and at this point there are people who still think the genie can be put back in the bottle. I'm just being rational about how these things always go. Quite aside from the inevitable, very quickly built search apps, we'll have infographics galore about the population set of users.


There's a difference between largely anonymous groupings of data and disclosing PII.

I think dumping the member information with email addresses, profile information could happen. Just verifying emails is already happening.

But the CC info with last four digits, addresses, names, etc. might be hard to keep visible for any length of time.

The Adult Friend hack wasn't as high profile as this one, but has largely been benign.


It could make a great data set for machine learning.




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