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Who was this attacker? I don't believe he is impossible to track down. Have eslint called law enforcement?



the attacker used generic sites (pastebin, stat counter sites) and there is no reason they did not access them through tor. Why would it be possible to track them down?


Ah, stat counter - I've read "he has sent to himself" thought somehow directly.

Yes, not so easy.


"Security by punishment" is a terrible paradigm that's not Web Scale. The internet is not the physical world — the attackers are probably accessing your stuff via Tor from a public wifi in a country far away.

If someone couldn't do basic things to secure their account, they should take the blame.


we don't need to victim blame here. we can both practice security best practices and also try to find and prosecute those responsible.




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