Check if your email has been hacked after the dangerous leaks
In one of the biggest data leaks in recent years, more than 773 million email addresses were leaked, along with more than 21 million passwords.
This leak was discovered by the famous security researcher and journalist Troy Hunt, after he received information that there was a large group of files in the range of 12 thousand files and about 2.7 billion records were hosted on the servers of Mega Corporation.
According to Hunt, these files, made up of email and passwords, were stored in a database arranged by subject.
The site also allows site owners to check email leaks on their sites.
Make sure your email is among these leaks:
To facilitate identification and verification of their data, security researcher Hunt has linked this database to his website: https://haveibeenpwned.com
1. Go to the website “Have i been pwned” and then enter the e-mail you want to verify in the search box and click on the search button as the following picture shows:
2. If a green message appears, rest assured, your mail is not in the list of leaks
3. If a message appears in red, know that your email is in the list of leaks, and that the message in red gives you more information about the locations of the leak and the number of times your mail is traded in this list. The following image shows an example of a leaked mail message.
Helpful tips to avoid these risks:
In case your mail is in the list of leaks, we recommend that you change your old passwords directly.
We also recommend that you do not give the same passwords to more than one email address, which means that if you have more than one email, we recommend using different passwords for each email. This also applies to social media platforms, where each is given its own passwords, and in the event of a breach, losses are limited and limited to one account.
Password manager programs and apps exist, one of which can be used to manage and maintain passwords
Avoid placing your email on suspicious or non-dangerous websites
We recommend that you do not give the same password to more than one email address
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