"And even though they make up only 5% of the total student population, international students earned nearly half of all Master’s and Doctor’s STEM degrees awarded in 2019, a total of 117,000 degrees."
That's an interesting stat which might be the source of the parent post assertion.
Maybe contact Have I Been Pwned?, work with them to add it to their leak database, notify site owners afterwards with a timeframe for disclosure and release your findings/blog post? Give people a way to check with HIBP, site owners a way to mitigate and claim the credit for the discovery.
That's an interesting stat which might be the source of the parent post assertion.