In some cases I needed a check code they demanded to send to my USA phone number. I also took the opportunity to move many of my account email addresses from the brazenly prying eyes of Google Gmail to a truly secure Protonmail account. I was absolutely shocked to find that one of the passwords was for a very valuable financial account. Such managers are great but they allow you to collect lots of passwords that you've abandoned years ago. It prompted me to spend several hours deleting/updating /checking all the passwords on my Roboform password manager against their list. I used their "personal data leak checker database" to check the four email addresses I use and my 'junk' account (not a gmail account) tested +ve.Īpparently there was an earlier data breach on Facebook (I am not a member) so maybe a good time for those with multiple online accounts to do some housekeeping and forensics on their logins and passwords. Here's one article relating to this breach. There was a message posted by a member on LinkedIn last week that LinkedIn had a significant data breach but so far, LinkedIn haven't messaged their members about it. I am an infrequent eBay user and not a bulk buyer/seller. Meanwhile, I am acquiring a new US phone number. Lacking any other options, I emailed their Security explaining the issue and asking for a workaround. PIN received but when I went to the Change Password option, it required a confirmation SMS to my US phone number that has expired and no longer valid. I thought the "different computer" notice was strange since I only access eBay on my laptop and office computers and I was on my laptop.Īnyway, I was advised that my logins had been compromised, my password and security questions had been reset and I needed to get a PIN to continue to the Password reset.
GOOGLE COMPROMISED PASSWORDS VERIFICATION
It prompted that I was logging in from a "different computer" and I went through a simple 'not a robot' verification procedure. Last night, I logged into my eBay account for the first time in many months.
I changed my Google password and then did some housekeeping and deleted a slew of saved passwords and logins for sites that I no longer access or have been "404'd". Five days ago, I got the following from Google.
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