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Pwned: has your personal information been stolen?

I followed the link to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ from this article:

(pwned definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/22/the-digital-spring-clean-how-to-sort-out-passwords-privacy-photos

What I found was alarming at first sight, but reading through the results, the personal information that could have been stolen was from historic data breaches dating back six years. I’ve changed passwords on every site I use since then and I use a password manager.

My results were:

Hotmail/Outlook – nine breaches.

Yahoo Mail – no breaches

Gmail personal – four breaches

Gmail business – no breaches

I’ve signed up to be notified when there’s another pwned attack.

Feeling paranoid yet?