Anders Schau Knatten
@knatten.bsky.social
I like C++, industrial music, and figuring out how computers work. Author of C++ Brain Teasers, http://blog.knatten.org, https://cppquiz.org and https://moduloone.com.
@troyhunt.com, the respected security researcher and source for this "article", summarises it well www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-s...
"I think [these kinds of articles] are deliberately misleading and designed to drive eyeballs on ads whilst the truth gets buried somewhere further down in the story."
"I think [these kinds of articles] are deliberately misleading and designed to drive eyeballs on ads whilst the truth gets buried somewhere further down in the story."
Inside the Synthient Threat Data
Where is your data on the internet? I mean, outside the places you've consciously provided it, where has it now flowed to and is being used and abused in ways you've never expected? The truth is that ...
www.troyhunt.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@troyhunt.com, the respected security researcher and source for this "article", summarises it well www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-s...
"I think [these kinds of articles] are deliberately misleading and designed to drive eyeballs on ads whilst the truth gets buried somewhere further down in the story."
"I think [these kinds of articles] are deliberately misleading and designed to drive eyeballs on ads whilst the truth gets buried somewhere further down in the story."
To get more clicks to their misinformation piece, they also write "Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail". But if you look at the source, Gmail or Google is not mentioned at all. haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Synth...
Have I Been Pwned: Synthient Stealer Log Threat Data Data Breach
During 2025, Synthient aggregated billions of records of "threat data" from various internet sources. The data contained 183M unique email addresses alongside the websites they were entered into and t...
haveibeenpwned.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
To get more clicks to their misinformation piece, they also write "Urgent alert issued to anyone who uses Gmail". But if you look at the source, Gmail or Google is not mentioned at all. haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Synth...
@griff0.bsky.social did I get that right?
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
@griff0.bsky.social did I get that right?
A bunch of sites (not Gmail) have leaked passwords over the years. In April, someone pasted them all into one big document. Some people use the same password on multiple sites. These users are then vulnerable on all those sites. One famous site which is good to use to get clicks happens to be Gmail.
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A bunch of sites (not Gmail) have leaked passwords over the years. In April, someone pasted them all into one big document. Some people use the same password on multiple sites. These users are then vulnerable on all those sites. One famous site which is good to use to get clicks happens to be Gmail.
A bunch of sites (not Gmail) have leaked passwords over the years. In April, someone pasted them all into one big document. Some people use the same password on multiple sites. These users are then vulnerable on all those sites. One famous site which is good to use to get clicks happens to be Gmail.
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
A bunch of sites (not Gmail) have leaked passwords over the years. In April, someone pasted them all into one big document. Some people use the same password on multiple sites. These users are then vulnerable on all those sites. One famous site which is good to use to get clicks happens to be Gmail.
If by "they" you mean Gmail, it's because it didn't happen to Gmail. This article is click bait misrepresenting what actually happened.
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
If by "they" you mean Gmail, it's because it didn't happen to Gmail. This article is click bait misrepresenting what actually happened.
Judging by the comments, this looks like misinformation. Don't click.
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Judging by the comments, this looks like misinformation. Don't click.