reporters were "essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business". There are *always* discussions held in private about a breach before it's made public.
"It is standard practice for passwords to be hashed. If the alleged breach has taken place as described, your passwords have not been revealed." This is misleading and ignores the simplicity of hash cracking. If your password is "maga2020!" (or similar), it has been revealed.
"It is entirely possible for a user of the site to be unidentifiable based on the information they provide at login." You login with your email address. This (almost always) identifies you, it's literally how people communicate with *you*!
"In our subscriber records we do not collect health or financial information; we do not collect dates of birth; we do not collect [blah blah]." When you've just had your neo-Nazi hate speech associated to your email address leaked, DoB is the least of your worries!
"Every major tech company – from Facebook to Twitter – has been the target of multiple and continued data breaches." AFAIK, neither of these companies have ever had their entire DB dumped in the style
page saying: "Due to these concerns, along with presence of passwords and other PII, this dataset is currently only being offered to journalists and researchers." I'd love to get this into
How about you focus on your pregnant wife for a while instead of making yourself an even bigger joke online, Torba? Trust me, things can get much. Much. Worse.
That being said it does seem this has the potential to sound like a threat.
On the other hand...
What he's being threatened with us being turned into a joke.
How can he be more of a joke?