Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has been compromised

Re:Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has ... by WhatsName on Thursday September 11, 2014 @10:50AM (#8302890)

Anyone here, who can say whether this service is trustworthy and not collecting additional Email addresses?

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has ... by gk1 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @10:56AM (#8302926)

Apparently it's made by this person: http://www.troyhunt.com/

Doesn't raise any red flags for me. As someone else pointed out, it's trivial for someone to collect emails or find your email. Heck, this latest dump has 5 million of them...

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has ... by jqueryin on Thursday September 11, 2014 @10:59AM (#8302939)

Agreed that he's legit and I can also verify it works as expected. It notified me of breaches I was already aware of (Thanks Forbes!).

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if you have an account that has ... by kazinator on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:04AM (#8302975)

I put in several of my e-mail addresses.

E-mail addresses are not secrets and were never intended to act that way, so I don't care if they are harvested.

I operate several mailing lists that allow postings from non-subscribers, to addresses that are easily harvestable from the web. Yet, the "mean time between spams" is on the order of many months.

I also use my real e-mail address in the From: header of Usenet postings.

I simply don't have a problem with spam because of my mail server's terrific anti-spam setup.

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