>> Interestingly my work email is on the list and I have never used it to
>> subscribe to any web sites or mailing lists. It's used for emails only.
I have a trash address which I use to sign up to non-significant stuff. It lives under about three ton of Spam. Don't care.
According to that Website it's been pwned a gazillion times. Don't care.
Then I have a social address. Normal social email, I never sign up to anything flighty with it but I do use it for things like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon etc. etc. It's my main social address. It's been pwned twice; Linkedin and Dropbox. Surprisingly it doesn't get much spam. Or Google is good at stopping it.
Then I have two business addresses. One for various business or official things I am involved in. Rarely sign up to anything with it, and then only necessary stuff. Never been pwned but but since the email address is published fairly frequently both in print and on various places on the internet it gets quite a lot of spam.
The second is my main business account. Never pwned, never received spam, I send business EMail only, never sign up to anything recreational with it. 100% business only.
So unsurprisingly it seems my address gets known (least to most) when someone is hacked, I sign up for something, or my email address appears on the internet.
The biggest risk for me would be loss of access to an account or someone misusing that account, more than it would be the unlikely loss of data. It's all a worry though.
I went through this weekend. I have 37 username/passwords I care about. All unique, all over 18 characters, never re-used and about as impossible to guess as can be. Thank the Lord for password managers.
I use two-way authentication on everything I can - which is probably about 2/3rds of them.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Tue 21 Apr 20 at 03:21
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