This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
Apparently my email was included in this breach, but none of the passwords I used with it were (before I started using randomly generated ones).
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.
Is there any info regarding how old this data is?
The breach occurred in April 2025.
During 2025, the threat-intelligence firm Synthient aggregated 2 billion unique email addresses disclosed in credential-stuffing lists found across multiple malicious internet sources. Comprised of email addresses and passwords from previous data breaches, these lists are used by attackers to compromise other, unrelated accounts of victims who have reused their passwords. The data also included 1.3 billion unique passwords, which are now searchable in Pwned Passwords. Working to turn breached data into awareness, Synthient partnered with HIBP to help victims of cybercrime understand their exposure.
This was added to Have I Been Pwned on Nov 6
Are we supposed to pronounce the two "data"s differently when reading aloud? Asking for a friend...
