Missed it all. Sorry Gents. NFI what happened. Cant see it, didnt do it. Concerned about my secure password though damn it. It may have implications elsewhere. Damn it.
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Missed it all. Sorry Gents. NFI what happened. Cant see it, didnt do it. Concerned about my secure password though damn it. It may have implications elsewhere. Damn it.
So a website I had subscribed to had a massive data breach where all user info including passwords was stolen. My password was then emailed to my email address( which was also taken from the website) and an attempt to blackmail money from me was made.
Fortunately I have several different passwords and used to use the one that was stolen for less secure websites.
Bots will scrape websites with your user info to see if they get a positive result and then a another script usually takes over if the first one gets past login.
For Darren and any one else interested out there, you can see if your info has been taken from any website by punching your email address into this website. It will tell you if your info has been breached and with some more digging, where from
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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