Wattpad security beach

Iroshan464

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wattpad-data-breach-exposes-account-info-for-millions-of-users/

My account too has bean leaked. Lot of personal data.

Bios, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Social media profiles, User website URLs, Usernames

vyas

Yes I got an alert from The Firefox monitor.
Do not even remember when I last used it.

Abdullah

Sad, they have my details glad I use firefox relay now

Naix

@Abdullah said:
Sad, they have my details glad I use firefox relay now

IMO, email is the least important thing in this leak.
Unless FF relay does more than email aliases (I don't use it), I don't see how it could've helped in this case.
Since we're talking about email aliases, I'd also recommend SimpleLogin and AnonAddy.

Abdullah

When if I use a ff relay email, I don't trust them with my real name, dob etc.

zirius

@Abdullah said:
Sad, they have my details glad I use firefox relay now

Thanks for letting me know about this service!

foxone

@Abdullah said:
Sad, they have my details glad I use firefox relay now

Cool. I do a similar thing using a catch-all rule on my domain: every mail that's not an active account is delivered to my personal mailbox, then i sign up using [email protected]. From the panel i can blacklist mails when they get breached and when i receive spam i know who leaked

Abdullah

@foxone said:
From the panel i can blacklist mails when they get breached and when i receive spam i know who leaked

Really nice approach, I will try this too

foxone

@Abdullah said:

@foxone said:
From the panel i can blacklist mails when they get breached and when i receive spam i know who leaked

Really nice approach, I will try this too

It's really nice because i've also made mails like [email protected] and every mail ending with -servers gets sent to my "Servers" folder and marked as urgent if it contains certain words.

vyas

I have used
contact+provider@mydomain

Or

gmailID+provider@gmail

I like your approach though! Minimal number of alternate universe Will try it out during next round of PW resets/ culling of inactive Accounts