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I got a seemingly genuine email from Gawker entitled, "Gawker Comment Accounts Compromised -- Important"

Although I don't believe my email address was in the dump.

I got that as well. I'm certain my email isn't in the dump (downloaded the torrent to double- and triple-check).

I thought is was strange they used a URL shortener with an uncommon TLD (.kr) to point to the FAQ lifehacker. Seems you'd want to be as unsuspicious as possible in this situation.

Actually I just realised that while my email wasn't in the dump, my username was.

I didn't find it myself with grep, but I did find it using this utility: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999373

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