Largest collection ever of breached data found

[Diabalo]

Just pulled this off Google news.

The largest collection of breached data in history has been discovered, comprising more than 770m email addresses and passwords posted to a popular hacking forum in mid-December.

You can use THIS site to see if it affects you.

 

[Robert Clark]

Looks like my email address was stolen from Searchforsites

 

[MichaelT]

what is this site in the link, is it the site that is stealing all the email addresses?

 

[Boringfrog]

Wasn't this posted a few years ago?

 

[Geo]

Now Now +1

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[Boringfrog]

This is on their FB page.

 

[pappajohn]

Don't have a lot of confidence in this.
It says one of my email address is compromised and the other two aren't so I changed the addy to a few that I doubt AOL would permit, though I could be wrong.
All @aol.....all the full word.....
Cu*t
Tw*t
Sh*g
Fu*k

All came back as compromised.

I won't be bothering to take any action.

 

[klaatu]

All @aol.....all the full word.....
Cu*t
Tw*t
Sh*g
Fu*k

The AOL mail servers confirm that these are valid email addresses.

 

[davanne]

Looks like my email address was stolen from Searchforsites

And mine Robert

 

[pappajohn]

The AOL mail servers confirm that these are valid email addresses.

I'm surprised.

I bet the owners don't use them on their CV.

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[Robert Clark]

Don't have a lot of confidence in this.
It says one of my email address is compromised and the other two aren't so I changed the addy to a few that I doubt AOL would permit, though I could be wrong.
All @aol.....all the full word.....
Cu*t
Tw*t
Sh*g
Fu*k

All came back as compromised.

I won't be bothering to take any action.

I just put in a made up email address and it came up as NOT pawned, so my feeling is that it’s genuine

 

[davanne]

I have two email addresses and one is ok the other isn’t

 

[maison]

It appears we are in the clear!

 

[chaser]

says mine isnt and thats on sfs but always a bit wary of putting an email on things like this, how do you know how genuine they are or just fishing

 

[PeteH]

Not real. I just posted an Old (now defunct) address, came back un breached. when I know it was compromised which is why I closed it down!

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[Bognor Saint]

I have two email addresses and one is ok the other isn’t

Same as me. No surprise that the not OK one is a talktalk address, which I don't use anymore.

 

[Just smiffy]

You do all know that it’s probably a scam site for collecting active email addresses.... if you’ve put yours in, expect loads of spam any time soon....

 

[klaatu]

Smiley noted, but it’s not a scam. Troy Hunt is a well respected security expert, and the site belongs to him.

 

[GJH]

The AOL mail servers confirm that these are valid email addresses.

I'm surprised.

I bet the owners don't use them on their CV.

I wouldn't be surprised if AOL set them up themselves just to stop users doing so.

 

[Ninovan]

Just put in an e-mail I haven't used for about 15 years & it came back pwned

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[GWAYGWAY]

I understand that the Russians have been following the following emails modgb.govuk/ fo-gb.gov.uk, and mfun.org.uk
wanting to find possible leaks to national security