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Cake day: September 11th, 2025

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  • The confusion appears to have started after Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) creator Troy Hunt announced he had added a large dataset of 183 million credentials to the breach notification service. The data was shared with Hunt by Synthient, a threat intelligence platform that collects and analyzes information from infostealer malware logs. As Hunt explained in a blog post, the collection reflects years of infostealer activity rather than a single new compromise – and certainly not a targeted attack on Gmail.

    Short version, 183 million computers have malware on them, and many people logged into their gmail accounts on infected computers.

    Not sure I blame Google for this one, but you should probably delete any Google accounts just to be safe (and also stop opening .exe files you get from sketchy websites).









  • Honestly, this should be a to do for any new homeowner - the process is easy and the tools are cheap! At bare minimum, everyone should own an outlet tester and just wander around plugging it into stuff.

    You would be shocked (or, at least you will be if you don’t test) to find out how many outlets have a loose/missing connection or are wired backwards. Takes 30 seconds to fix and could save you a lot of headache.