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Check if your email information has been stolen! Feb 13, 2016 9:29:29 GMT -5 kas likes this

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Post by kas on Feb 13, 2016 9:29:29 GMT -5

How do you know if a hacker has stolen and even SOLD your login information for your email account? This is important as hackers then can sell to anyone who can then use your email account to spam others, tarnish your name, and even start scams in your name keeping their own scammy self in the clear.

You can check if your email account has become compromised at any time in the past and even get notified in the future at:

haveibeenpwned.com/

I checked and 2 of mine have been compromised in the past due to websites I had registered on.

One email was affected by the Syrian Electronic Army hacks (yes, seriously) and the other was a hacker posted all the hacked information on a bitcoin site (not sure for selling them or to show off).

Since then the passwords as well as the security information has been changed. It is important to change more than just the password as many times hackers can get back in through the "lost password" door via your security information. Also it is important to check your settings to make sure that your emails and changes are not being sent to the hacker's email address.

The only way to protect yourself is to arm yourself with knowledge. When you relax and expect others to protect you, they usually drop the ball. So this is why I do what I do.
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kas
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I no longer do indepth security inspections. Now this is more of a hobby I do in my spare time.

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Check if your email information has been stolen! Feb 17, 2022 8:43:14 GMT -5

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Post by kas on Feb 17, 2022 8:43:14 GMT -5

You can also check here whatismyipaddress.com/breach-check

Even though it uses HaveIBeenPwned.com which is VERY good I decided to share as WhatIsMyIPAddress has a lot of good stuff on their site.

I found out about this Breach through it:

Company Name: Gravatar

Domain Name: gravatar.com

Date Breach Originally Occurred: October 3, 2020

Type of Information Breached: Email addresses, Names, Usernames

Breach Overview: In October 2020, a security researcher published a technique for scraping large volumes of data from Gravatar, the service for providing globally unique avatars . 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users' avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community. 114 million of the MD5 hashes were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data. Following the impacted email addresses being searchable in HIBP, Gravatar release an FAQ detailing the incident.

Total Number of Accounts Affected: 113,990,759

Also found out the information they stole was PASTED onto a site to sell to other scammers! VERY BAD

This is what Gravatar said about the breach: en.gravatar.com/support/data-privacy

However BleepingComputer (which I really trust) said this: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/online-avatar-service-gravatar-allows-mass-collection-of-user-info/

Last Edit: Feb 17, 2022 8:56:52 GMT -5 by kas

The only way to protect yourself is to arm yourself with knowledge. When you relax and expect others to protect you, they usually drop the ball. So this is why I do what I do.
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