Comment by refulgentis

People pitching scammy “I can make you famous” services to aspiring musicians. Happens all the time, there’s a whole industry dedicated to it.

Let's say you have a $SOCIETAL_TABOO streak and let it out via a soundcloud account that isn't identifiable as you without your email.

Now it is.

Now I can blackmail you or haunt you.

(I'm sure there's other examples, tl;dr people are deanonymized, there are uncountable reasons why people choose anonymity)

> The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense, or a variety of other data brokers or other legal marketplaces for PII.

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