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Have I Been Pwned: Pwned Passwords
Have I Been Pwned allows you to search across multiple data breaches to see if your email address or phone number has been compromised.
Enter your password you use in various places (note, you should always use a different password for each login you have) into the website above and you will see if it has been included in breaches.
So like when Yahoo got hacked, eBay got hacked, Adobe got hacked, banks got hacked, various other departments of countries and stuff got hacked. The nice hackers, the ones helping fix loop holes, made a searchable database so you can check against it to see. (Full list of websites that have been hacked, and have had to publicly admit it because their databases ended up on the dark web: Have I Been Pwned: Pwned websites - https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites )
If it has been stolen before and ended up on a list, then you need to change it on sites you use it on. Including ours.
Not that once somebody is in your account they can do anything but post under your name (so they can't access other peoples accounts etc).
You can also enter a domain for email addresses on this page: Have I Been Pwned: Domain search - https://haveibeenpwned.com/DomainSearch
Though that doesn't matter too much. You may find your own email address has been breached. And if so, your password may have been to, and that then gets used and entered into other sites, like paypal etc, and that's how they steal your money. It's what the aim is in the first place for them to breach a big company. That and ransom. Whichever pays best.
So, if you password is poor, change it on the forum: https://www.electriciansforums.net/account/security
You can also enable two-step verification, if you do, use the App option and not email.
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