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'Have I Been Pwned' offers a quick way to see if your email was part of a database breach

article published on 8 December, 2013

Nowadays, it seems like every other week a major corporation or website is seeing an attack on their databases, with email addresses, passwords and other personal info being stolen by the attackers. A new website wants to make it easier to see if your information has been stolen, by integrating the stolen databases into one larger database that you can search by your email. Computer ... [ read the full article ]

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aw2600
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_ 		8. December 2013 @ 12:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yay! No pwnage found for me.
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Igmutaka
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_ 		8. December 2013 @ 12:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is what people do to collect email addresses
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DarkJello
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_ 		8. December 2013 @ 13:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Igmutaka:
 This is what people do to collect email addresses
my thoughts exactly lol
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dEwMe
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_ 		10. December 2013 @ 12:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DarkJello:
Originally posted by Igmutaka:
 This is what people do to collect email addresses
my thoughts exactly lol
Dmn I just gave them 4...
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Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
ChappyTTV
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_ 		15. December 2013 @ 19:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Igmutaka:
 This is what people do to collect email addresses
LOL...yep, Social Engineering at it's finest...HAHA! Tell people to check their email against a list and harvest a gazillion email addy's...brilliant.

Fortunately tho, this guy seems pretty legit & spells things out clearly in the FAQ's.
I got hit from the Stratfor leak...damn, that addy has been clean for 15 years until now.
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ChappyTTV
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_ 		15. December 2013 @ 19:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by dEwMe:
Originally posted by DarkJello:
Originally posted by Igmutaka:
 This is what people do to collect email addresses
my thoughts exactly lol
Dmn I just gave them 4...
dEwMe...you just been done...;)
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