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I don't understand why you're being downvoted here. Sites like you describe will undoubtedly pop up around this dataset.

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Denial is a powerful thing, and at this point there are people who still think the genie can be put back in the bottle. I'm just being rational about how these things always go. Quite aside from the inevitable, very quickly built search apps, we'll have infographics galore about the population set of users.

There's a difference between largely anonymous groupings of data and disclosing PII.

I think dumping the member information with email addresses, profile information could happen. Just verifying emails is already happening.

But the CC info with last four digits, addresses, names, etc. might be hard to keep visible for any length of time.

The Adult Friend hack wasn't as high profile as this one, but has largely been benign.

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