Update: the leak actually happened two years ago, so no news here ...
I just received the following email to the email address that I've registered on bitcointalk (I may have published this address one or two other places, except for that I've only used it on bitcointalk):
I sell an e-mail database of Bitcointalk forum users.
Quantity of unique e-mails: 543,690
63,000 users from parsing and
492,000 users from the dump purchased on DarkNet.
The database is not fake, you can check it by doing the following:
- Find any e-mail on any Bitcointalk page
- Tell me first three characters of that e-mail
- I send you all e-mails from my database that begin with these characters
The price of the database is 1 BTC.
This database can be used to involve new investors in ICO projects and find partners for any crypto-currency business.
If you are interested, do not hesitate to contact me.