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paco_sinbad on Nov 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Personal and social information of 1.2B people dis...

It's a marketing ploy by ES.

They aggregated the data and published it so that the viral breach would spread their name around because all publicity is good publicity.

Just riffing of course.

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