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Basement Cowboy Task 1 Publish Verification (2026-06-06 20:24 UTC)
Verification capture from source detail extraction (not AI-summarized): Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff. A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year.
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