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> While distressing, this was likely done specifically to 'pwn' Troy and not necessarily due to the email list on his blog being especially valuable to spammers.

To what end though? Positive public notoriety isn't going to be a thing. Buffing your darknet creds also seems pretty unlikely since the sophisticated phish would be better spent actually gathering emails. And most obviously if they were targeting him in some other way why do the immediate automated export?