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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe?

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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News of the dataset comes from Troy Hunt, operator of the Have I Been Pwned service used to identify emails that appear in data breaches.
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    id recommend custom email addresses… most places let you tack on arbitrary strings to your email address or if you have your own domain, you can just forward all and use anyname@yourdomain on the fly.

    no single system compromise can affect any other system

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      But many sites don’t support that, unfortunately.

      DHL for example will happily create an account for you with the “mail+xyz@gmail”, but will sometimes drop the suffix internally. You can’t reset your password for example. Super annoying.

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        yeah that will give you ‘reply’ ability, but ive noticed i almost never actually need that extra bit.

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            i’ll give ya the domain leak…

            but i have hundreds of addresses across a few domains, and ive had to setup reply for maybe 5.

            i have no issues with spam, not sure why ya brought that up. most providers have pretty good filters these days

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