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submitted 1 year ago by BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

My password manager told me that my info was leaked, including IP address, address, email, personal information, and phone number, in a data breach of eye4fraud.com. However, I don't use eye4fraud, so it must have been a site that uses their services. I would like to change my login credentials on the site that shared my data with them (and stop using their service since they're sharing my info with a security company that was breached), but I don't know which site that was. I found this list of sites that use eye4fraud, but that list has over 1,600 entries. Other than reviewing every single sight on the list, is there a way of finding out which site that I use leaked my info?

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[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Probably not.

The best advice I've heard is to use a variation of your email (assuming you use Gmail) on every site you sign up for that indicates that website. This would allow you to immediately know.

So what is a Gmail Plus address? Say you have an email address like billgates@gmail.com. If you append a “plus” sign to your email username, Gmail will ignore anything written between the + and @ sign in the email address and still deliver the message to the same mailbox.

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[-] RQG@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Does something similar exist aside from Gmail? Cus you know. Gmail.

[-] Triton@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I think it's a fairly standard feature. At least Protonmail also supports this kind of "alias".

[-] DudeDudenson 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I'm not mistaken it's part of the original spec, Dylan beattle had a bit in a talk about email at some point

Edit: I was in fact mistaken it's a Google only thing and not part of the spec

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