Call for help: researching the recent gmail password leak

Hey folks,

You probably heard this week about 5 million @gmail.com accounts posted. I’ve been researching it independently, and was hoping for some community help (this is completely unrelated to the fact that I work at Google - I just like passwords).

I’m reasonably sure that the released list is an amalgamation of a bunch of other lists and breaches. But I don’t know what ones - that’s what I’m trying to find out!

Which brings me to how you can help: people who can recognize which site their password came from. I’m trying to build a list of which breaches were aggregated to create this list, in the hopes that I can find breaches that were previously unreported!

If you want to help:

      1. Check your email address on https://haveibeenpwned.com/
      2. If you're in the list, email ihazhacked@skullsecurity.org from the associated account
      3. I'll tell you the password that was associated with that account
      4. And, most importantly, you tell me which site you used that password on!

In a couple days/weeks (depending on how many responses I get), I’ll release the list of providers!

Thanks! And, as a special ‘thank you’ to all of you, here are the aggregated passwords from the breach! And no, I’m not going to release (or keep) the email list. :)

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