It would be fitting as $500 bills will mostly be used by criminals.

I assume since the freelancers are affected by the hack they were informed by the Times.

Ironically his “making the frogs gay” bit is more rooted in fact than many of his other stuff. In many other cases (such as Sandy Hook) he’s ranting freely, based on nothing. The frogs thing is at least based on a study that concluded male frogs were affected by chemicals that can make them able to reproduce with other male frogs. So it’s loosely based on a creative interpretation of something real.

It was probably translated from the original French automatically.

Cat5?

The 399 sneakers were just to draw attention to his other sneakers that are more affordable on the same site. Those will presumably bring in the lion share of the money.

They could just look for names, then hash those names and compare them to your hashed name. So technically that don’t need to store your data, just hashes.

They know it will hurt Apple more than them.

Presumably black Friday is a “all hands on deck” day, so a tiny group might make a difference.