BD detected data breach
Hi there, so I tried running the Account privacy feature from BD, and it says there's a data breach, and suggests me to change my password and mark it solved. So, does it mean my e-mail was hacked? What does those breaches or data leaks mean? Thanks in advance
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This means that your email address was associated with some company or you may have sometime entered your email in any 3rd party website which might have been hacked or became a victim of data breach.
You can also check your email for breach by entering it in the below stated website.
https://whatismyipaddress.com/breach-check
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Hello @Simply_Kathie,
I will do my best to provide further clarification regarding the data breaches.
To find stolen data, we scan the dark corners of the web using various methods. Once the data is found, we use a proprietary system for identity resolution to discover the identity of the breached individual, so we can alert the person about the breach, even if the breach itself includes little or outdated information.
Most commonly, breaches include information about users’ emails, passwords, names and usernames, phone numbers, and physical addresses. Their exposed data creates a snowball effect that ultimately leads to the leak, sale, or trade of entire digital identities on the Dark Web.
Breaches are not necessary found on a specific website.
They are in a compilation of usernames, passwords, phone numbers, etc. found in archives or texts on the Dark Web, in general.
The Digital Identity Protection service raises awareness about your Digital Footprint (data exposed in Surface Web) and remediation steps for data breaches (data exposed in Dark Web). However, you would not be able to change the username for a specific website, but you will be informed that in that specific period, data about you has appeared in data lists on the dark web.
This means that you could become victim of a scam. As the purpose is to raise awareness of these breaches and the data involved can be various, there are no mitigation steps for the situation. If the breach was about a password, you could have changed it, but the breach can also involve other types of data, such as phone numers, address, etc. And if these are listed somewhere on the dark corners of the web, there is no possible way to retrieve or delete them from there, because you don't have control over that leaked information.
I hope the information is helpful.
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Thanks so much, I'm not really a techy person but that sounds really something I need to be aware of...
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Hi...How will I know which companies or websites? After scanning from BD, I only saw a list of those breached, but they don't sound familiar to me, the names too technical. If I need to change my password for each account, I should know which ones are those, but cannot figure them out...
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