Soldato
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711 million email addresses and passwords dumped.
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[email protected] shows that he has become an online gamer but apart from that, no gold yet
Soldato
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Yeah i've been pwned 6 times.
Leaked emails + passwords.
Le sigh..... I use different passwords for every service at least.
Leaked emails + passwords.
Le sigh..... I use different passwords for every service at least.
How are you so sure your password has not been leaked?
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Ive only got 2x emails, so will just change the passwords anyway.
It's not that simple. The leaked passwords are (probably) not email account passwords. The leaks are from unknown websites you've signed up to using that email address.
Even if you use a different password for every site you sign up to, you still dont know which password has been leaked so to be 100% secure you'd have to change every password.
It says in the blog post that the emails + passwords were used in an attempt to send email but the actual data is probably "aggregations from various other breach sources". So username+password combos from other breaches being used to try and "log in" to your email account - most likely not the correct email account password unless you reuse the same passwords. If you have an email address and password on the list, you still dont know which password has been leaked.
edit: it's still a good idea to change your email passwords anyway
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it does say at the bottom under the site which was compromised if its email password or both.
It says Email Addresses, Passwords.
Or does that translate to 'both'?
Does that then also mean email address/password for that email address? Or just that email address on a specific website?
look one post above mine. It's all a bit confusing tbh.
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Ive checked mine now, and it says good news, no pwnage found!
Associate
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My old (and now inactive) email address has one match. Not overly concerned by this as any card data etc will surely but out of date.
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I searched some of the mod's [email protected] and while results were funny, many of the site leaks seemed so gaming and geek related to the point that i dont doubt that it may be their real e-mail
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Well that's all 3 of my email addresses on that list so best change the passwords to be safe. Thanks for the heads up.
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so you are all inputing your email addresses into a site called haveibeenpwnd"? ok that's clever ..
blahh i had my virgin account compromised last month.. I didn't even think to check it had two stage authentication..
that's clever .. blahh i had my virgin account compromised last month.. I didn't even think to check it had two stage authentication..
so you are all inputing your email addresses into a site called haveibeenpwnd"? ok
blahh i had my virgin account compromised last month.. I didn't even think to check it had two stage authentication..
Site is perfectly fine. Troy Hunt is the guy behind it - https://www.troyhunt.com/about/
It's times like this I seriously consider apps like dashlane or Keepass. But then at the same time of you're in the habit of remembering very secure passwords with 2FA as well anyway, it renders those apps unecessary.
But it's made me think of those 2FA usb keys you plug in. Need to relook into those
But it's made me think of those 2FA usb keys you plug in. Need to relook into those