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One obvious answer in that case would be to establish who is buying the data from them and treat any PDL data as potentially tainted. If you find a downstream customer who does have a presence, then investigate accordingly. You might not be able to fine PDL directly, but you could certainly make the offending data risky or unprofitable...


Sure, but how do you propose doing that? Send another strongly worded letter to PDL demanding their customer list?


Usually you'd either track known errors in the dataset (implying that the companies had either bought it from PDL or copied the leak), or you'd ask the banks (who do have a presence) which accounts were paying them and who owned the accounts. If Bitcoin's involved at all, you assume there's something fishy going on and investigate accordingly.

(Assuming anyone were bothered enough to actually do this, of course.)




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