The Recent Password Hacks
 

I read about a website where you can enter an email to see if it appears on any website, plus where it was taken from. Around 3 billion emails are supposedly in their combined database.

I ran three emails so far and my spam email got hit hard. I changed the password last week fortunately. Of the twelve things they could get, they got password and name too from bitly. I’ve never been there or several others listed.

Result of Your Request for the HPI Identity Leak Checker

Attention: Your e-mail address [email protected] appears in at least one stolen and illegally published identity data base (a so-called identity leak).
The following sensitive information was freely found on the Internet in connection with your e-mail address:

Affected Service
Date Verified
Affected users
Password
First and last name
Date of birth
Address
Telephone number
Credit card
Bank account details
Social security number
IP Address


Affected Service
Unknown (Collection #1-#5)
Unknown (Anti-Public Combolist Jan. 2017)
modbsolutions.com (Modern Business Solutions)
linuxmint.com
tumblr.com
dropbox.com
androidforums.com
bitly.com

If you want to check, go to https://sec.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/leak-...search?lang=en

Only the email address is needed.

And yes, I’m dumping the email above for a new one. 99% is spam so I’ll filter the good ones and notify them. I changed password but I get too many spams.

Do NOT use the site posted above.

The only safe site to use and the most complete is https://haveibeenpwned.com

I really hate it when MORONS post misleading and dangerous shit like this.

I agree! :thumbsup

Reminds me of back in the day were there were these sketchy websites that would say "Enter your credit card number to check if its been stolen."

And people would actually do it, by the thousands. LOL.

Great way to collect a base of valid email addresses for spamming.

https://haveibeenpwned.com is legit. Run by Troy Hunt, well known security researcher.

The link posted by the OP is to a University research lab who had a database stolen in an attack on their own site. Not to be trusted. Pretty much anything posted by the OP is mindless dribble. And I get she's disabled but sometimes you gotta call out the fuckwits.

maybe they just collect working email adresses