I don't know what to make of this post from one of my list members.? She is worried that somehow, groups.io was hacked, and her email address and other information may have been stolen.? I have not idea if this site is related to groups.io or not, so wanted to post here, and see what other expert groups.io users have to say about this.? Here is the post, I've removed any list member identifying information:
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Hi all
I'm sorry, that I have to write this here, and hope admins will take this serioully?
There has been a lot of breaches lately concerning diverse on the Internet.
I checked the email account, which I use here and got what you see at the end of this message.
I am actually quite worried. The only place I have encountered something with ".io" is on this list, so I assume, this is where I should be concerned.
You can all check your email adresses here:
You will see if your email is leaked, and at the end of the message, you will see which sites have been compromised.
Marianne
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Verifications.io: In February 2019, the email address validation service?. Discovered by??and?, the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addresses being exposed. Many records within the data also included additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders. No passwords were included in the data. The Verifications.io website went offline during the disclosure process, although?.
Compromised data:?Dates of birth, Email addresses, Employers, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
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