Breach notification site LeakedSource shuts down after apparent police raid

LeakedSource is a bit like the Yellow Pages for leaks. When a site gets popped, and the contents of its database find their way to the shadier bits of the Internet, LeakedSource is the site that aggregates it. In theory, it allowed anyone to check if they’d been victim of a data breach. Should you be concerned your personal details were caught up in, say, the vast moats of data flowing from sites like Ashley Madison and LinkedIn, you could check. But there was a dark side to LeakedSource. It had a business model that granted literally anyone access to their…
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