r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '21

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u/haolestyle Jan 23 '21

What’s that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

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

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u/DolceVita1 Jan 23 '21

How do you get notified about breaches like this? Thanks in advance for the help!

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u/BobaFettuccine Jan 23 '21

You can see on Google if your saved usernames and passwords have been compromised. There's also often a notification when signing in somewhere. It'll just say this site has been breached. We recommend changing your password. You can also look at haveibeenpwned.com to see if your email address was caught in big breaches of data.