Received an email from IDX stating that my email address was exposed in Yet Another Breach affecting several millions. I have several emails from services that have been breached, and offering me a free year of some such security suite to monitor whatever. At what point do I just throw my hands in the air and say “the hackers won?”
Start using Hide My Email more often. I use the Fastmail equivalent and started creating unique emails for most things. Never save CC info with a site.
Microsoft has a page where you can see account activity. Mine is full of hits from India, China, Brazil, etc. All are trying the same old Hotmail email I got long before MS bought them. I just went in and deleted that email.
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+1 for hide my email services. Fastmail’s implementation is fantastic and Proton’s SimpleLogin is also great.
My use of these services is extensive, every single account I have has a unique email address that can be quickly & easily changed in the event of a breach. I’d also recommend using your own domain name with these services which allows for easy portability in case you need to switch providers.
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I been using the same Gmail address for 20 years and I doubt if I receive 5 spam messages a year in my Inbox.
I also have a private domain that I only use with friends, family, and professional services. I give the gmail address to everyone (Amazon, AT&T, Hulu, etc.) and only forward messages from the people & businesses I choose to my private account.
If you start having problems due to the breach you could set up a gmail account and forward all your mail to it. Then create a rule in Apple Mail to move the filtered gmail messages to your existing account.
Or you could wait and see if you even have a problem.
We can also get a free @duck.com email address and unlimited random email aliases.
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