Paranoia pays off
I did the test on all.my email addresses.......I'm a ghost
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/ ... /102175688
Lazarus wrote:Paranoia pays off
I did the test on all.my email addresses.......I'm a ghost
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/ ... /102175688
bladeracer wrote:Lazarus wrote:Paranoia pays off
I did the test on all.my email addresses.......I'm a ghost
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/ ... /102175688
Well, I only have one email address, which I've had since 2000.
It says I've been caught up in nine data breaches. Two I was aware of, the old MySpace one (five years after I stopped playing with MySpace - I didn't use it for anything) and the UtahGunExchange that was only a couple years ago. It also says Twitter. I do have a Twitter account but have never used it for anything at all.
The data they got is pretty innocuous though.
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I only have one email address so I guess the nine breeches just means my address was taken nine times? As I do get spam email this is no surprise. Nine times is ludicrously low though considering I have posted my address on several public forums over the years.
Passwords change regularly so they don't matter.
I only have two usernames, which are posted every time I post anything to forums, so that is information I readily give out. Likewise my name, it is on everything I do on FB and in the real world so I'm already giving it out to the public to use as it wishes.
My gender is a real surprise, love to know what they do with that one
Did they completely ignore the Medicare and bank breaches we've seen here?
Lazarus wrote:Perhaps your data wasn't compromised in those breaches
Might be time to change that email, Blade.
I have mine compartmentalised, address X, Y or Z is used only for a particular purpose and nothing else, etc, and there is no "cross-pollenisation".
I also change them regularly, it's a chore I'm happy to put up with.
bladeracer wrote:Lazarus wrote:Paranoia pays off
I did the test on all.my email addresses.......I'm a ghost
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/ ... /102175688
Well, I only have one email address, which I've had since 2000.
It says I've been caught up in nine data breaches. Two I was aware of, the old MySpace one (five years after I stopped playing with MySpace - I didn't use it for anything) and the UtahGunExchange that was only a couple years ago. It also says Twitter. I do have a Twitter account but have never used it for anything at all.
The data they got is pretty innocuous though.
I only have one email address so I guess the nine breeches just means my address was taken nine times? As I do get spam email this is no surprise. Nine times is ludicrously low though considering I have posted my address on several public forums over the years.
Passwords change regularly so they don't matter.
I only have two usernames, which are posted every time I post anything to forums, so that is information I readily give out. Likewise my name, it is on everything I do on FB and in the real world so I'm already giving it out to the public to use as it wishes.
My gender is a real surprise, love to know what they do with that one
Did they completely ignore the Medicare and bank breaches we've seen here?