Why would they tell you your email in an email sent directly to you? No, scratch that. Why would they censor your email in an email sent directly to you?
My email address is literally registered on dozens of websites. I use a different completely random password, generated by a password manager, on every one of those sites. How would I know which website and which password was compromised based on this message?
They are not being informed that their actual email account is compromised. They are simply being told that their email address and an associated password was located in some csv file somewhere.
You use your email as an identifier/username by default for numerous services so without them specifying anything further this information isn’t exceptionally meaningful. If you use the same password for your email provider as you do other services, then you’ve got bigger problems(Please don’t do this)
No, it’s just saying they found whatever the email is along with a password in some dark web database.
The dumb part is that they don’t tell you any of the email address in the alert.
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Was that alert sent as an email?
Why would they tell you your email in an email sent directly to you? No, scratch that. Why would they censor your email in an email sent directly to you?
Maybe it’s offensive 😆
And pray do tell if it’s not being sold, why is it listed in some random data breach??
. I just said it in layman’s terms. Op needs to reset his password cause someone is selling it.
My email address is literally registered on dozens of websites. I use a different completely random password, generated by a password manager, on every one of those sites. How would I know which website and which password was compromised based on this message?
But what site does he need to reset?
They are not being informed that their actual email account is compromised. They are simply being told that their email address and an associated password was located in some csv file somewhere.
You use your email as an identifier/username by default for numerous services so without them specifying anything further this information isn’t exceptionally meaningful. If you use the same password for your email provider as you do other services, then you’ve got bigger problems(Please don’t do this)