Elections staff look up a campaign email in public breach-index tools and get no hits. What does that result mean?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A clean lookup is like a library that does not have that book—not a certificate that the book was never printed. Say what corpora were checked. Do not bless the campaign's OPSEC from a negative result.
Full Explanation
Public breach indexes cover known, published corpora; they are not a complete history of every exposure. A negative result should be reported as not found in the tools and dumps checked, with lookup date noted. It does not prove good security, authorize password reuse, or justify pivoting into non-public databases. Elections staff can still apply ordinary credential-hygiene advice independent of the index miss.