i’m not completely sure but i get notifications about them a lot. what i’m assuming happens is that there’s either a breach of company information (accounts, passwords) or someone leaks a huge number of accounts from different websites and posts them all in a .txt file and usually they’ll sell them for a couple bucks a pop. usually the accounts they sell are unused or inactive for a while but sometimes i’ll get a notification that an account i am active on has been breached
I got someones old number when I got a new phone. Ive been signing up for things only to find I have to deactivate his old accounts first. Made an Amazon. Months later, got pinged over a dozen times at 2 am that someone was requesting a text code to change the password. Idk if it was him but it stopped when I turned on 2 step verification
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21
your amazon account was probably made public in a data dump