[ale] [OT] A frightening thing

[Leam Hall]

Well, it gets even more fun; that e-mail has disappeared. I haven't
emptied my trash or anything recently...

*sigh* And companies wonder why we don't want to give them information...

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 12:33 PM Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
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> Sounds like phishing using credentials harvested (e.g.) on the dark web.
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> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:59 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>> This morning I got a Google "security" thing for my google account.
>> Somehow it had passwords for many accounts that I do not link to
>> Google. At least I wasn't aware that I was giving them my password...
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>> Anyone familiar with this? Solutions that move away from a company
>> that collects and sells things they shouldn't?
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