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My PW manager told me that my info was leaked in the recent eye4fraud.com breach. How can I know what site shared my data with them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My password manager told me that my info was leaked, including IP address, address, email, personal information, and phone number, in a data breach of eye4fraud.com. However, I don't use eye4fraud, so it must have been a site that uses their services. I would like to change my login credentials on the site that shared my data with them (and stop using their service since they're sharing my info with a security company that was breached), but I don't know which site that was. I found this list of sites that use eye4fraud, but that list has over 1,600 entries. Other than reviewing every single sight on the list, is there a way of finding out which site that I use leaked my info?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Probably not.

The best advice I've heard is to use a variation of your email (assuming you use Gmail) on every site you sign up for that indicates that website. This would allow you to immediately know.

So what is a Gmail Plus address? Say you have an email address like [email protected]. If you append a “plus” sign to your email username, Gmail will ignore anything written between the + and @ sign in the email address and still deliver the message to the same mailbox.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Does something similar exist aside from Gmail? Cus you know. Gmail.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could use something like simplelogin.io to create aliases.

Integrates with password managers like Bitwarden nicely to generate aliases.

I think many other services support the + trick though too. The downside is that spammers know the + trick and can find out your base email easily; they can’t if you use an alias.

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