1. The website owners should be informed so they can investigate how many of their customers are affected, notify them of the leak, and report it to the relevant authorities. However, we did not necessarily have their contact details or another way to reach them.
2. Sending thousands of emails to the leaked addresses could further expose that data, as the addresses would then be stored in our email client, on the mail server, and elsewhere. We would have needed to automate this, meaning a service like Mailgun would also receive the data. There was also a significant risk that these emails would end up in spam.
3. The most responsible path forward seemed to be sharing the website URLs and some metadata with Lovable, allowing them to contact the website owners through the appropriate channels.
We discussed several aspects, including:
1. The website owners should be informed so they can investigate how many of their customers are affected, notify them of the leak, and report it to the relevant authorities. However, we did not necessarily have their contact details or another way to reach them.
2. Sending thousands of emails to the leaked addresses could further expose that data, as the addresses would then be stored in our email client, on the mail server, and elsewhere. We would have needed to automate this, meaning a service like Mailgun would also receive the data. There was also a significant risk that these emails would end up in spam.
3. The most responsible path forward seemed to be sharing the website URLs and some metadata with Lovable, allowing them to contact the website owners through the appropriate channels.
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