have I been pwned?

[nosrednayduj]

So I went to the site recommended by the recent dw_news. I found an interesting fact: It claimed one of my email addresses had been compromised. However, the password I've used at that account for years, it claimed had never been seen in any breach. So, whatever data they have, it isn't connected. Maybe it's some site where my username for the site is that email address. Anyway, I'm not really worried. I have very little to hide. I suspect that if someone tried to steal my 401k or something I'd be able to get it back, and they're welcome to my purchase histories.

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[lauradi7dw]

I changed my ID name slightly when I moved over to DW, and of course I made a new password. I did keep the same email address, the one I use for most businesses and organizations. The pwn people showed nine hits for that email address, but said that I have zero "pastes." Does that mean nine places (including LJ but also, worryingly, Patreon, which I still regularly use) leaked my info but that nobody has used it?
I was one of the gazillion people affected by the credit card data breach that occurred at Target in December 2013. That may have been the only time I shopped at Target that whole year, but I had gone in to buy a big present for a holiday toy drive. I decided not to request a new card, and it didn't seem that anybody had used the number. I was (and am) convinced that Paypal gave/lost/sold my credit card information a different time. People scoffed, but it seemed to me the only explanation. My cc company called me about two illicit purchases (that I could not have made) not long after I had used the card on PP. The card company immediately changed number and issued a new card. I cancelled my PP account. I end up using the Paypal accidentally from time to time, as a guest, because so many small organizations use it exclusively when requesting donations.

[cjsmith]

I too have not truly been pwned, but I sure do show up in some spam lists. :)

[wrog]

I keep getting mail from people who claim to have cracked my account at tvtropes and then threaten to publicly release all of the masturbation videos that I've supposedly made.

And it's true that I actually did correct a spelling of something at tvtropes many years ago. And the password does look like the sort of password I'd have used there. And if they ever do bother to figure out the pattern I have for sites I don't care about, I probably would be in trouble with respect to those sites, if I cared about them, which, oddly enough, I don't, so...