Check Your Email Addresses!

Eldon · Feb 8, 2019

I decided to check my email addresses after reading this...
"The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach"
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-773-million-record-collection-1-data-reach/

With the HPI Identity Leak Checker, it is possible to check whether your email address, along with other personal data (e.g. telephone number, date of birth or address), has been made public on the Internet where it can be misused for malicious purposes.
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https://sec.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/ilc/search?lang=en

The Hasso Plattner Institute is probably not well known outside of Germany.

HPI was founded in 1998 and is the first, and as of 2018 the only entirely privately funded faculty in Germany.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasso_Plattner_Institute

Replicator · Feb 8, 2019

Hey thats a pretty cool database tool, never seen that one before!
Interesting domain [uni-potsdam.de] which would suggest a University study by security geeks.

Although no test is ever complete, this is a worthwhile project that will only develop over time.
Even my spam mail addy passed

DavidGP · Feb 9, 2019

Interesting, I noted an adobe password seemed to be compromised of mine on my usual signup email address, from that check, so changed, not much elese tho.

joffa · Feb 9, 2019

Checked and all email addresses clear.......really surprised that a couple of my throwaway anonymous addresses were still clean.......very interesting

joffa · Feb 9, 2019

DavidGP said: ↑

Interesting, I noted an adobe password seemed to be compromised of mine on my usual signup email address, from that check, so changed, not much elese tho.
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A few years ago when the company was still using Adobe products (Acrobat Professional and InDesign) we used to get a lot of SPAM emails but then we stopped using Acrobat for PDFs because it became too expensive for 15 licences and the same with InDesign with two licences. Now only one copy of InDesign is being used on a Mac Pro and the SPAM has decreased significantly as all except one Adobe account has lapsed. The only Adobe account survivor is on the Mac Pro and this computer is not linked to our usual mail domain that is used for all other staff .........junk mail problem solved 3 years ago....... by accident

LauraR · Feb 9, 2019

2 of mine were compromised. One was my MG one from back when the old forum got hacked. I only use that for here and had changed the password when it happened. The other was my one I use for online stuff...also not a shock. I have changed the password before, but did it again today. None of my passwords were in there though, so that's good.

Eldon · Feb 9, 2019

LauraR said: ↑

One was my MG one from back when the old forum got hacked.
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Same here.
My Outlook Mail is OK.

Sgt. Tibbs · Feb 10, 2019

Turns out both of the ones I use regularly were leaked, but it only affected passwords (which I change frequently) and in the case of MG, also my birthdate. Whatever.

Anon-469e6fb48c · Feb 12, 2019

My user email yes but password was changed a s soon as it happened.

I managed to keep stuff a bay since then.

plodr · Feb 13, 2019

One of mine was leaked through MajorGeeks but since I change passwords, nothing was lost, including control of the email account.

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