• Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, it’s not too helpful, but maybe they have no more data. If you want to know more, go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and enter you e-mail. They maybe know, where your data came from.

    Otherwise: Do you have a different and random password for each site? If yes, change your gmail password (in as it was gmail itself) and then watch the news, if a site you use was hacked. If you don’t have different password for each site… Well then you are gonna have a fun day changing all you passwords to new ones. And use a password manager and a new random password for each site this time, please.

  • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
    428·
    2 months ago

    Reset your email password. It’s saying that your email is being sold

    • wander1236@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Forester@yiffit.netEnglish
        318·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          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?

        • InquisitiveApathy@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          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)