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1 HN user recommended this in 2019, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2019, in one comment.
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There isn't a "the guy" who did "the hack"; this is an aggregate compilation of a series of low-quality elements that have mostly lost their market value. It's the computer security equivalent of this: https://smile.amazon.com/Midnight-Movie-Madness-MegaPack-Dig... 50 low-value movies for $11.99. Note the distinction between "low value" and "no value". Yes, you might find something you like in there, as some of the reviewers did, but the economic value of this stuff has passed.
My point is that the market value has been lost because there actually is some churn in passwords and accounts. If 99% of the credentials in this hack still worked, it would not be getting sold at this price at all; it would be selling something worth tens or hundreds of thousands, if not millions to the right buyer, for You Pay Only $44.99. Not gonna happen. It can't be worth all that much to most buyers if that's all they're selling it for.
Or it's just so widespread that it's worthless, although I'd suggest in that case that we'd have heard about it earlier. Have I Been Pwned actually has some hookups in that world.