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poking around mozilla/firefox account. What does 'resolved' mean? It asked if I wanted to resolve using an alias firefox.com email address. okay. not even sure what that meant. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/resolve-breaches-firefox-monitor

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The service you have found, Monitor, is for getting notifications about information that has been leaked from companies data breaches. The list you have is a list of actions that you can do to minimize the impact ("resolve").

I think you were trying to use Firefox Relay, but I can't help because I haven't used it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. If my email was 'leaked' it is still out there in data file for sale maybe still. I'm wondering what effect using an [email protected] address has on anything already out there. sure if an alias leaked but I still use the original. 'resolved', not really

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

did notice an uptick in all.one.word.spam emails which were pretty obvious spam. they never stop. wonder how my 85 yo mother deals with spam. got her to stop using hotmail and yahoo after a few stupid questions she was asking about emails. she still uses them for certain people. wonder if spam keeps old accounts active by randomly sending mail to them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Putting in my main email I got 0 breaches.

The other email I trashed years ago has 6, guess I'm not doing so bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s inaccurate. I know for a fact my main account has been involved in breaches, as https://haveibeenpwned.com/ has alerted me in the past, and I have seen the account included in public data dumps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Still 0 on my main

Guess i dont visit anything popular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago