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• LPT: Type the website name before your first name when creating online accounts so you know who leaked your data.

  Adding onto this LPT: use https://haveibeenpwned.com/ frequently and sign up for https://monitor.firefox.com/ . Both have helped me train myself on better password security. Source: about 2 years ago

• Fraudulent charges on my Visa but it wasn't lost or stolen - how does this happen?

  Check if there's any recent breach using your email https://monitor.firefox.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Credit card fraud - has anyone heard of recent data breaches?

  Enter your email here https://monitor.firefox.com/ to check if there's a known breach. Source: about 2 years ago

• FireFox Monitor Warns Gemini Data Leak

  You can check it yourself on either FireFox Monitor or Have I Been Pwned to see if your e-mail address appears on the leaked list. Also take caution your phone number may have been leaked. Source: over 2 years ago

• Oh no, oh no, oh no! 😱

  Your contact info was probably part of some data breach. See if something comes up with https://haveibeenpwned.com/ or https://monitor.firefox.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• What happened here? Opened a link on my phone while I was far away from home. That same moment, my wife got an email welcoming her to the same company.

  Clearly if her spam caught it, we know that she didn't willingly sign up for it, so the final possibility is they skimmed her email address out of a public leak, and used it at an opportune moment. You can check your email addresses here: https://monitor.firefox.com/ That site will let you know if you've shown up in any public leaks. I've been in 17. Source: over 2 years ago

• Storyline vs. Rise

  And Monitor is a good, practical way of finding out if you need to change passwords, plus introduce the topic of password entropy. Source: almost 3 years ago

• The second time I have gotten this message

  If you use the password anywhere else, then you need to change it where you do use it. Check on https://monitor.firefox.com to see if you're email is okay. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Things are very wrong, getting spam among others

  With email you can check if your email has been leaked in a data breach at: https://monitor.firefox.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

• Is my email safe?

  You can check for data breach on https://monitor.firefox.com/ or https://haveibeenpwned.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

• YSK: If you've saved any passwords through Chrome, Google has a feature that automatically warns you of password breaches. You can activate it under your Google account > Security > scroll to "Enhanced Safe Browsing"

  Firefox Monitor will also alert you if your email is found in any known data breaches. Source: about 3 years ago

• Opensubtitles got hacked

  Beyond the obvious recommendation to use a password manager like Bitwarden, I can also recommend signing up for https://monitor.firefox.com. They will alert you to new breaches discovered through the HIBP API. Can be configured for multiple email addresses. Source: over 3 years ago

• Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames

  I already knew about this before I visited HN today, thanks to Firefox Monitor ( https://monitor.firefox.com/ ) :D. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• If you've used Bunnings for click and collect, your info is included in a new security breach of the booking platform they use called "Flexbooker"

  I also use Firefox Monitor (which uses the Have I Been Pwned data), but it's limited to 15 email addresses... And I've gone through far more than that. Source: over 3 years ago

• Firefox monitor breach

  You can check it here: https://monitor.firefox.com. Source: over 3 years ago

• Firefox Monitor new feature: monitor sites for your personal info and remove it

  That is an extremely strange and suspicious link that I would immediately class as a phishing attempt if it had not been posted by an established HN account. The actual link for the title service is https://monitor.firefox.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• What the hell…

  Mozilla also has access to the same databases if you'd prefer using that https://monitor.firefox.com/. Source: over 3 years ago

• What exactly can the internet do with an email address?

  Yes and no. With your email, they now know 50% of what they need to log into most websites with your info. That other 50% will be easier or harder depending on your password and if you have things like multifactor authentication enabled. They can do a credential stuffing attack where they parse through breached databases for your email and find passwords you've used before. I assume your email is in some leaked... Source: over 3 years ago

• How to protect NAS from hacker attacks and ransomware programs?

  Remember that hackers pick passwords using dictionaries. Therefore, you cannot use any word as a password. If hackers gain access to the administrative account, they can get to the accounts of other users. Which often happens when the same websites are hacked. We recommend checking your email address for leaks on Have I Been Pwned and Firefox Monitor, for example. Source: over 3 years ago

• My sister recently got an email with her password and such from pchacked @ open, anyone got any clue what to do to counter act?

  What probably happened is that some site that she used got hacked and they stored passwords unencrypted. The e-mail address, password combinations are sold for pennies to hackers who try to monetize them. She should change passwords on any other site where she used that password. She can probably find which site leaked the password here or here. Don't engage with the scammers. Source: over 3 years ago

• "Twitch.tv got leaked. Like, the entire website; Source code with comments for the website and various console/phone versions, refrences to an unreleased steam competitor, payouts, encrypted passwords that kinda thing. Might wana change your passwords."

  Maybe monitor.firefox.com is for you then. If you set it up you can "clear" old breaches and get automatically notified without actively checking. The dataset is from haveibeenpwned.com, so no difference there. Source: over 3 years ago