Have I Been Pwned?

[beanhubbleday]

Hi All,

 

Just received this to my inbox, it's legit. 

 

You might want to consider checking if you're affected for yourself here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

 

 

You can also read up on what it means to be 'pwned' and how it can affect you which is good to know.

 

Enjoy!

 

- Jack

Edited August 30, 2017 by JackHubbleday
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[Prysin]

Someone visited a shady porn site

[beanhubbleday]

Just now, Prysin said:

Someone visited a shady porn site

Nope, it's actually a shared work email address and 711 million other people must have done the same too...

[Guest]

I havent been affected by this matter, but RIP for the 4,712,017,449 people who have been pwned.

[beanhubbleday]

1 minute ago, TheBeastPC said:

I havent been affected by this matter, but RIP for the 4,712,017,449 people who have been pwned.

This time round it's only 711 million people affected. In total its 4+ Billion

[Jurrunio]

So my 2 work emails are both pwned but the porn/games/everything_shady email isnt..... Hmmm

[beanhubbleday]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

So my 2 work emails are both pwned but the porn/games/everything_shady email isnt..... Hmmm

GG man, GG lmao

[Guest]

pwned!

 

Because you know youve been owned when you do shady stuff.

[Enderman]

This looks like one of those "insert credit card number here to check if you've been compromised!" sites.......

[beanhubbleday]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

This looks like one of those "insert credit card number here to check if you've been compromised!" sites.......

It's not at all, It's legit...

[sazrocks]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

This looks like one of those "insert credit card number here to check if you've been compromised!" sites.......

I agree but this is actually a legit one. It checks your email address against known lists of leaked account info.

[Enderman]

6 minutes ago, JackHubbleday said:

It's not at all, It's legit...

3 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

I agree but this is actually a legit one. It checks your email address against known lists of leaked account info.

I bet it still adds your email to its own list of emails, like literally every other website does.

So if it gets hacked then that's just another possibility of it getting stolen.

[beanhubbleday]

4 minutes ago, Enderman said:

I bet it still adds your email to its own list of emails, like literally every other website does.

So if it gets hacked then that's just another possibility of it getting stolen.

Potentially but pretty unlikely.

[KenjiUmino]

8 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

It checks your email address against known lists of leaked account info.

if these lists exist, does that mean someone leaked the leaks?

 

7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

I bet it still adds your email to its own list of emails, like literally every other website does.

So if it gets hacked then that's just another possibility of it getting stolen.

exactly

 

3 minutes ago, JackHubbleday said:

Potentially but pretty unlikely.

with all that leaking going on, i'd say VERY likely

[beanhubbleday]

5 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

if these lists exist, does that mean someone leaked the leaks?

 

exactly

 

with all that leaking going on, i'd say VERY likely

They expose leaks, they do not do the leaking. They help other people out. This is a widely known website within the IT community... I'm pretty sure it has been questioned before, by professionals.

[captain_to_fire]

I'm still wondering how they determine if an email account is compromised or not. My Gmail is "a okay" while the Outlook one which I rarely use nowadays has been compromised once. I think it could be the time I was in public wifi without VPN or that Gmail's encryption is tighter. In fact, I see Gmail's spam filters better.

 

Although I kinda regret posting my email address in this website. Will they spam my emails? I changed my Outlook password twice already and added two-factor authentication even if I rarely use it.

[beanhubbleday]

2 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

I'm still wondering how they determine if an email account is compromised or not. My Gmail is "a okay" while the Outlook one which I rarely use nowadays has been compromised once. I think it could be the time I was in public wifi without VPN or that Gmail's encryption is tighter. In fact, I see Gmail's spam filters better.

 

Although I kinda regret posting my email address in this website. Will they spam my emails? I changed my Outlook password twice already and added two-factor authentication even if I rarely use it.

They don't spam or anything like that, no need to worry.

 

With regards to how, it could be a legit website you sign up to which has had its database's breached and leaked.

[captain_to_fire]

Just now, JackHubbleday said:

They don't spam or anything like that, no need to worry.

 

With regards to how, it could be a legit website you sign up to which has had its database's breached and leaked.

Does it cover social media accounts too? Because I'm pretty sure Linus' Twitter handle has been compromised before and he even made a video about it.

[Enderman]

18 minutes ago, JackHubbleday said:

Potentially but pretty unlikely.

As with all the other websites that store emails and credit card numbers, it's unlikely.

Doesn't mean it can't happen, as you can see from the millions of leaks every year.

The fewer websites with your info the safer you are.

[beanhubbleday]

5 minutes ago, Enderman said:

As with all the other websites that store emails and credit card numbers, it's unlikely.

Doesn't mean it can't happen, as you can see from the millions of leaks every year.

The fewer websites with your info the safer you are.

Very true.

[beanhubbleday]

7 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

Does it cover social media accounts too? Because I'm pretty sure Linus' Twitter handle has been compromised before and he even made a video about it.

Nope, emails.

 

Also its not on about breache sit's on about leaks of data.

[captain_to_fire]

1 minute ago, JackHubbleday said:

Nope, emails.

 

Also its not on about breache sit's on about leaks of data.

Oh...

[KenjiUmino]

9 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

My Gmail is "a okay" while the Outlook one which I rarely use nowadays has been compromised once.

i don't know why but outlook is the worst of all email accounts i have when it comes to spam and getting compromised. 

 

the shit ton of spam mails i get on my outlook per DAY is about double the spam my other mail adresses combined get in a month.

 

also, in addition to recieving spam, my outlook adress has actually been abused to send spam. never happened with ANY other mail account i had

[beanhubbleday]

Just now, KenjiUmino said:

i don't know why but outlook is the worst of all email accounts i have when it comes to spam and getting compromised. 

 

the shit ton of spam mails i get on my outlook per DAY is about double the spam my other mail adresses combined get in a month.

 

also, in addition to recieving spam, my outlook adress has actually been abused to send spam. never happened with ANY other mail account i had

Weaker spam filtering...

[KenjiUmino]

Just now, JackHubbleday said:

Weaker spam filtering...

weaker anything. 

 

or it is because it's microsoft and thus very poplular so every script kiddo tries @outlook.com first when looking for targets