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Use the "passwords" feature to check if one of yours is compromised. If it shows up, never ever reuse those credentials. They'll be baked into thousands of botnets etc. and be forevermore part of automated break-in attempts until one randomly succeeds.

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[–] anas@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently my email was included in this breach, but none of the passwords I used with it were (before I started using randomly generated ones).

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Are we supposed to pronounce the two "data"s differently when reading aloud? Asking for a friend...

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Possibly related question. Layely I've been getting email 'replies' from various businesses and services (all over the country, USA) all about an 'inquiry' that I never made. Apparently someone just got my email address and is using that for -- what ? A couple questions:

** What is that someone up to, why doing that?

** Should I do something about that?

** What could I do? Don't want to change email address.

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