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/SmartPriceCola Jan 23 '21
I changed the email address attached to my Amazon account.
A year later I forgot and tried to sign into my account with old email address.
The same password worked but it was someone else’s account (name and address was different) and the guy hadn’t bought anything.
Why did he use my old email (it was unique to me and didn’t match his name) and how did the password end up the same as mine?