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		mnw21cam on Jan 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP a... It's not just subtitles - it's all the login information stored there as well. Email addresses to send spam to, passwords that have likely been reused on another site.

Markoff on Jan 20, 2022 [–]

and how is you reusing password to download subtitles (it ain't even necessary really) problem of the hacked site?

yes spam could be annoying, but it's not like people use email only to register on one site

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