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I read an article in Saturday's Times about the hacking of Emails. It provided a website where you input your Email address and it will search and tell you if you've suffered a breach of your data.It's free. Professor Alan Woodward,a cyber-security researcher at the University of Surrey says that younger people are more at risk as they have a tendency to overshare online and that you can assume that if your Email was leaked then the data stored with it was.
The website is called haveibeenpwed.com and is bona fide. It's run by Troy Hunt,an Australian web security expert and is used by the UK's National Cyber-security Centre
Hopefully this will be live haveibeenpwned.com
Wiki features it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_Been_Pwned?
I put in my Email address and got this answer.
'Breaches you were pwned in'
Adobe and Money Bookers. It states that a breached site is where data has been illegally accessed by hackers and then released publicly. Like most on here I use Adobe. I don't recall using Money Booker/Skrill. The only money transfers I've engaged in is on here re. equipment sales. I assume the buyers on here went throughout their own banks.I don't know
It goes on..The data can include Email address, passwords, credit card details.
It further states.
1.Adobe 2013. In 2013 153 million Adobe Accounts were breached with each containing an internal ID, Username,Email,encrypted password and a password hint in plain text. The password cryptography was poorly done and many quickly reverted to plain text.The uncrypted hints also disclosed much about the passwords adding further to the risk that hundreds of millions of Adobe customers faced.
2.Money Bookers. Sometime in 2009 the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed also most 4.5 million customers . Now called Skrill,the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses,home addresses.,names,phone numbers and physical addresses.
This is why I and my wife declined the invitation from the NHS (via my surgery) to allow them to place my medical history online. I well appreciate the advantages..you fall ill somewhere away from home and your history is available to those treating you but as with other large organisation security breaches have occurred. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/he...edical-records-go-online-without-consent.html
For a start too many NHS/Health employees can access it which is very concerning. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/security-breach-fears-26-million-nhs-patients/
The website is called haveibeenpwed.com and is bona fide. It's run by Troy Hunt,an Australian web security expert and is used by the UK's National Cyber-security Centre
Hopefully this will be live haveibeenpwned.com
Wiki features it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_I_Been_Pwned?
I put in my Email address and got this answer.
'Breaches you were pwned in'
Adobe and Money Bookers. It states that a breached site is where data has been illegally accessed by hackers and then released publicly. Like most on here I use Adobe. I don't recall using Money Booker/Skrill. The only money transfers I've engaged in is on here re. equipment sales. I assume the buyers on here went throughout their own banks.I don't know
It goes on..The data can include Email address, passwords, credit card details.
It further states.
1.Adobe 2013. In 2013 153 million Adobe Accounts were breached with each containing an internal ID, Username,Email,encrypted password and a password hint in plain text. The password cryptography was poorly done and many quickly reverted to plain text.The uncrypted hints also disclosed much about the passwords adding further to the risk that hundreds of millions of Adobe customers faced.
2.Money Bookers. Sometime in 2009 the e-wallet service known as Money Bookers suffered a data breach which exposed also most 4.5 million customers . Now called Skrill,the breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, dates of birth, Email addresses, IP addresses,home addresses.,names,phone numbers and physical addresses.
This is why I and my wife declined the invitation from the NHS (via my surgery) to allow them to place my medical history online. I well appreciate the advantages..you fall ill somewhere away from home and your history is available to those treating you but as with other large organisation security breaches have occurred. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/he...edical-records-go-online-without-consent.html
For a start too many NHS/Health employees can access it which is very concerning. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/security-breach-fears-26-million-nhs-patients/