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Use the "passwords" feature to check if one of yours is compromised. If it shows up, never ever reuse those credentials. They'll be baked into thousands of botnets etc. and be forevermore part of automated break-in attempts until one randomly succeeds.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's make a master list of all the emails leaked with their passwords, what could go wrong?

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's exactly how it worked. A company called synthient made a master list with all the leaked emails + all leaked passwords. Then they were hacked and it leaked

[–] ChogChog@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Synthient wasn’t hacked, as a security company, they aggregated tons of stealer logs dumped to social media, Telegram, etc.

They found 8% of the data collected was not in the HIBP database, confirmed with some of the legitimate owners that the data was real.

They then took that research and shared it with HIBP which is the correct thing to do.

I was also thrown off by the title they gave it when I first saw it, a security company being hacked would be a terrible look. but they explain it in the article. Should probably have named it “list aggregation” or something.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

so why hibp calls them data breach??? Ultra misleading, almost defamation, everyone including me only reads the headlines

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone should make a list of all the leaked credentials that got leaked.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I think that’s HIBP basically?

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

But then nothing has changed if they were just collating what was already leaked.