• @chemical_cutthroat
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    117 hours ago

    I’m more shocked that there were 57 million accounts for Hot Topic. People. Stop giving your information to companies that have nothing to do with your personal data.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      I mean, if they’re burner email addresses, fake names etc. provided to take advantage of promotions - then it really doesn’t matter.

      If anything, it’s a good thing to salt the dataset to make it less valuable to would-be ne’er-do-wells.

      • @chemical_cutthroat
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        4 hours ago

        I agree wholeheartedly, but how many on that list do you think are actually burners, and how many are kids?

        • @[email protected]
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          23 hours ago

          The optimist in me would like to think that a significant portion of them would be ‘dead’ emails, as kids would have used cringey addresses like [email protected] (I know I did! 😅); but honestly - given how pervasively online Gen Z/A are (and relatively tech illiterate), they’re probably almost all valid addresses.

  • @lemonSqueezy
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    14 hours ago

    They’re still around ? I haven’t been In 20 years. I really hope I can find a replacement for my what used to be a vintage transformers shirt. … And maybe some goth accessories.

  • @jqubed
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    25 hours ago

    I wonder if this includes all the user data they got when they bought ThinkGeek?