Use the “passwords” feature to check if one of yours is compromised. If it shows up, never ever reuse those credentials. They’ll be baked into thousands of botnets etc. and be forevermore part of automated break-in attempts until one randomly succeeds.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    5 days ago

    Possibly related question. Layely I’ve been getting email ‘replies’ from various businesses and services (all over the country, USA) all about an ‘inquiry’ that I never made. Apparently someone just got my email address and is using that for – what ? A couple questions:

    ** What is that someone up to, why doing that?

    ** Should I do something about that?

    ** What could I do? Don’t want to change email address.

    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 days ago

      That’s just your email address being sold by information brokers. Not illegal, not a reason to change your email address. Block, delete & move on.