[Newsbot]

Title: 711 million email addresses ensnared in "largest" spambot
Category: Tech
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2017-08-30 06:58:51
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

This article doesn't like being opened in a frame. Go here:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/onliner-sp ... -millions/

And to see if your email/password has been compromised, go here:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

[BRAH]

Two old yahoo email addresses might have been pwned, current passwords are fine. My air-gap email address (it's not used on any mobile devices) I use for financial transactions etc is safe.

[DrCaleb]

Oddly, both of my business addresses were in there. I don't give those out.

I can only guess someone had me in their address book on their phone, and downloaded an app that slurped up their contact list without asking. Uber, for example, is bad for that sort of thing.

[xerxes]

Oh good I'm safe...this time. Even my old hotmaip account which I use for sketchy websites.

[housewife]

So in small words for the slow people in the class. What is pwn

[Strutz]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

This article doesn't like being opened in a frame. Go here:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/onliner-sp ... -millions/

And to see if your email/password has been compromised, go here:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Both of my email usernames are fine but my username in here comes up as pwned.

[DrCaleb]

housewife housewife:

So in small words for the slow people in the class. What is pwn

A computer culture misspelling of the word 'own'. p -> o, the keys are side by side. You have been 'owned' (or pwned) is a term meaning someone else now controls some virtual item that you used to. They own the virtual you.

[DrCaleb]

Strutz Strutz:

Both of my email usernames are fine but my username in here comes up as pwned.

Are you sure it's here? Did you use that username somewhere else? Is it someone else with the same username?

My usernames on different sites all check out as unpowned.

[Strutz]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Strutz Strutz:

Both of my email usernames are fine but my username in here comes up as pwned.

Are you sure it's here? Did you use that username somewhere else? Is it someone else with the same username?

My usernames on different sites all check out as unpowned.

No I don't use that username anywhere else.

I guess someone else out there in cyberland might use Strutz but I randomly tried other usernames from this site and they came up pwned. Coincidence?

[DrCaleb]

Strutz Strutz:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Strutz Strutz:

Both of my email usernames are fine but my username in here comes up as pwned.

Are you sure it's here? Did you use that username somewhere else? Is it someone else with the same username?

My usernames on different sites all check out as unpowned.

No I don't use that username anywhere else.

I guess someone else out there in cyberland might use Strutz but I randomly tried other usernames from this site and they came up pwned. Coincidence?

Can't say. I tried my username(s) here, and they came up as not pwned.

[BRAH]

Strutz Strutz:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

This article doesn't like being opened in a frame. Go here:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/onliner-sp ... -millions/

And to see if your email/password has been compromised, go here:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Both of my email usernames are fine but my username in here comes up as pwned.

After your post I re-checked and my user name shows up. Yours like mine could be used by other people on other websites which explains why they show up.

xerxes xerxes:

Oh good I'm safe...this time. Even my old hotmaip account which I use for sketchy websites.

You're a Pornhub member too?

[Public_Domain]

[raydan]

My email is OK but raydan is powned.

Never used it as a password though and this is the only place I use raydan. I do know that other people use it as a username on other sites.

[Thanos]

BRAH BRAH:

You're a Pornhub member too?

As long as my Reality Kings and Naughty America accounts are safe then I'm happy.