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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proud that my only pwned password is three decades old.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stuffing? Just in time for the holiday season!

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

moans "stuff me santa"

Santa: "we are skipping that house"

This is the type of unhinged shit I signed up for!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The thing about this one is no one seems sure of the source (it appears to be from multiple sources, including infostealer malware and phishing attacks), so you don't know which passwords to change. To be safe you'd have to do all of them.

Some password managers (e.g. Bitwarden) offer an automatic check for whether your actual passwords have been seen in these hack databases, which is a bit more practical than changing hundreds of passwords just in case.

And of course don't reuse passwords. If you have access to an email masking service you can not only use a different password for every site, but also a different email address. Then hackers can't even easily connect that it's your account on different sites.

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