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Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker
Does this mean that the email is currently conpromised? Was at one time compromised? Or does ot mean a service that you have used with that email address was compromised. Can you do your best to elaborate please
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Yes sure.
What it means is that the email address together with passwords and other identifying data has been disclosed in a breach. Some of these breaches are self disclosed by affected companies but usually they are disclosed by hacker database dumps being found by security researchers.
If your email appears in a breach then the breach will be listed. If you have not changed your password since the date of that breach then you should change it because until you change your password you are still at risk. Simply put, until you change your password on a service that has been breached then you are still compromised.
Does that help, happy to expand more if needed.
