Simple way to check if your data was stolen in a major data breech

[emeryjre]

An announcement has come out.

A file with billions of emails and passwords has been found for sale on the Dark Web

How can you find out if your email was among them

A service was set up years ago to allow you to check your email for data hacks

Go to the website below and follow the instructions

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.

haveibeenpwned.com

 

[ScoopKona]

So long as Troy keeps running this site, it's fairly safe. It's also a way to discover if someone had an account at Ashley Madison. (Or at least it was. I hope they've patched that issue.)