I hang out here most days but usually only scan notables due to constraints on my time. This is old news, but I don't recall seeing it posted before:

"In October 2018, the bullion education and dealer services site GoldSilver suffered a data breach that exposed 243k unique email addresses spanning customers and mailing list subscribers. An extensive amount of personal information on customers was obtained including names, addresses, phone numbers, purchases and passwords and answers to security questions stored as MD5 hashes. In a small number of cases, passport, social security numbers and partial credit card data was also exposed. The data breach and source code belonging to GoldSilver was publicly posted on a dark web service where it remained months later. When notified about the incident, GoldSilver advised that "all affected customers have been directly notified"."

sauce: https://www.itsecuritynews.info/goldsilver-242715-breached-accounts/

So basically someone outed all of Mike Maloney's customers worldwide, publishing details of who they are, where they live and what they've been stacking in the way of silver and gold. It strikes me that the biggest stackers of PMs are likely patriots. I know - rule number one - pay for you PMs with cash and leave no details of who you are. Not everyone follows those rules, however. So patriots who have bought online with goldsilver.com are in deep do-do.

I do have to wonder whether this is a cabal shot across the bows and there is intent - should they lose bigly - to publish similar details from other websites offering PMs for sale. Such a targeted shopping list for crims would certainly cause a lot of stress to groups of people purchasing PMs in this way. Perhaps not so much of a problem in the US where gold and silver are backed by lead, but in Germany for instance, with their migrant problems, it would cause all sorts of mayhem.