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Obligatory: companies should face harsh penalties for this stuff.
Yes but this wasn't a data breach. This was a data stuffing incident, meaning they took someone else's data dump and tried their email and credentials here.
I cannot think of a use-case outside of statecraft. Maybe companies engaged, or being engaged, in corporate espionage.