Weird email from some gmail.com address about purchase of norton antivirus.

I use this to block senders in Gmail. Works like a charm

I have shown 10 pwned sites or apps, which I never used in life time except avast. how it comes antspants

jraju said:

I have shown 10 pwned sites or apps, which I never used in life time except avast. how it comes antspants

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This site:


Only lists web pages, forums, accounts at software companies etc etc that you have signed up for/to or entered a mail list for which have been breeched in the past.

So there are three scenarios that I can think of:

1. You forget signing up
2. Someone has signed up with your email address
3. An affiliate site associated with one that you have signed up for, has your email

What is the site all about?​

This site came about after what was, at the time, the largest ever single breach of customer accounts — Adobe. I often did post-breach analysis of user credentials and kept finding the same accounts exposed over and over again, often with the same passwords which then put the victims at further risk of their other accounts being compromised.

The FAQs page goes into a lot more detail, but all the data on this site comes from "breaches" where data is exposed to persons that should not have been able to view it.

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Why build the site?​

This site serves two primary purposes for me: firstly, it obviously provides a service to the public. Data breaches are rampant and many people don't appreciate the scale or frequency with which they occur. By aggregating the data here I hope that it not only helps victims learn of compromises of their accounts, but also highlights the severity of the risks of online attacks on today's internet.

Secondly, the site provided me with an excellent use case for putting a number of technologies through their paces and keeping my hands-on skills somewhat current. Projects like this are an excellent way of staying relevant as my day job increasingly focuses more on software management and less on actually building things (which I happen to love doing!) It's been an enormously fulfilling journey that I've invited others to join me on by way of often blogging in depth about the process, something I intend to keep up as the site inevitably evolves over time.

If you want to get the attention of a particular member put the @ symbol in front of their username like this:

@jraju

Then they’ll get a notification on this forum.