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Re: I would have missed that.

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:58 pm
by peter
Tony Hague wrote:If you've changed your password. Makes it sound rather easy. But with so many sites insisting you create an account, and without any clue as to which site your email address and password might have been stolen from, that's the best part of a day's work !


Peter wrote:Look at https://haveibeenpwned.com put your email address in and it will tell you how many data heists had your email and password in them and when they occurred and whose system the data came from.



The I've been pwned website tells you where it was stolen from. :D

Re: I would have missed that.

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:50 am
by Tony Hague
peter wrote:The I've been pwned website tells you where it was stolen from. :D


Does it ? I see details of lists the e-mail address was found in. Which I suppose don't necessarily include source information ?

Re: I would have missed that.

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:59 am
by peter
It should say who the data was taken from.

For example my email was disclosed by a breach of LinkedIn, the business/professional social networking site, in May 2026. The heist took place in 2013 with the data being seen for sale in 2016.