Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I really wish they could check phone numbers. I’ve been getting a TON of spam recently and it would be interesting to see where it’s coming from.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There has likely been an evolution of war dialers. It’s probably easier to blast through every possible number once a year, and sell a list of every valid number. Targeting specific area codes is probably faster and would avoid some legal problems.

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    • DiagonalHorse@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh. You think read receipts via RCS could make it worse? Obviously Google would probably have to make an exception to allow for this but hey “Don’t Be Evil”

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  • vollkorntomate@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could in the past (until around 1-2 years ago). I don’t know why it changed, though.

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• 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yea just got the alert that one of my old email addresses was affected

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does that mean the malware was once on your system?

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