In the landscape of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), the ability to correlate data points from disparate sources is paramount. IntelX.io, founded in 2018 by the creators of the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) data aggregation service, positions itself as a "search engine and data archive." It differs from Google or Bing by indexing data from the darknet, document dumps, and public leaks.
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