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Reset your email password. It's saying that your email is being sold
No, it's just saying they found whatever the email is along with a password in some dark web database.
The dumb part is that they don't tell you any of the email address in the alert.
And pray do tell if it's not being sold, why is it listed in some random data breach??
. I just said it in layman's terms. Op needs to reset his password cause someone is selling it.
They are not being informed that their actual email account is compromised. They are simply being told that their email address and an associated password was located in some csv file somewhere.
You use your email as an identifier/username by default for numerous services so without them specifying anything further this information isn't exceptionally meaningful. If you use the same password for your email provider as you do other services, then you've got bigger problems(Please don't do this)