Got a popup that Norton and Lifelock teamed up about the Equifax issue and prompted for an email to search for breaches. True?
Stands Alone:Me too on Adobe, and every place I check all say 2013, why didn't Adobe notify it's customers, I'm always logging into my Adobe account, not a word from them!
Hi Stands Alone:
I still have the e-mail from Adobe Customer Support sent 11-Oct-2013 with the subject line "Important Password Reset Information" that reads:
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Me too on Adobe, and every place I check all say 2013, why didn't Adobe notify it's customers, I'm always logging into my Adobe account, not a word from them!
Equifax is hooked up to LifeLock! They are getting big money from Lifelock. What a scam these people are pulling on us all. We aren't their customers as Equifax main customers are lenders (banks, mortgage companies and alike) I have been saying for over 10 years all 3 credit bureau's are not safe or make mistakes and who is watching these guys, what government agency is overseeing them. They can really mess you up. When the announcement of the breach I joked with family "what if it's not true, think of all the money these guys are going to make with everyone running to them for services you have to pay them for". I once put alerts with all three and one of them put it as a freeze, quess who? Yep Equifax! It took me 3 years to get the freeze off, I would be told I didn't have a freeze then I was told it was removed and it went like that never ending for 3 years. The most helpful one I have to say is Experian.
Equifax just recently got a government contract with the IRS! It has been put on hold, hold it should be withdrawn!
Oh, by the way, years ago LifeLock's CEO did a TV commercial telling everyone how protected he was that he advertising his social security number on the sides of delivery trucks, his identity was stolen 13 times!!!!
Now Norton is selling their product, crazy.
ViscountTurbo:Be advised that LifeLock has a contract with Equifax to handle the monitoring if you sign up. It is covered in the terms of agreement.
https://www.lifelock.com/how-it-works/overview/
https://www.lifelock.com/legal/
Be advised that LifeLock has a contract with Equifax to handle the monitoring if you sign up. It is covered in the terms of agreement.
The Norton LifeLock promotion site at https://www.lifelock.com/breach-detection-crmv3?promocode=NortonCRMBreachScan&nc=pifnortontolifelock&psn= shows 1 breach in October 2013 for my Outlook.com (Windows Live) e-mail address:
... but the Have I Been Pwned? site at https://haveibeenpwned.com/ I mentioned <here> shows 4 breaches and 0 pastes (i.e., information that has been "pasted" to a publicly facing website designed to share content such as Pastebin ) for the same e-mail address and shows the October 2013 breach for my Adobe forum account, as well as the November 2014 breach of my Malwarebytes forum account.
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We must be doing something right!
That's my two addresses and Dottie's one.
How do I identify which? Do one at a time?
Just as an FYI on this subject, here's the link to LifeLock's website to check your email addresses:
https://www.lifelock.com/breach-detection-crmv3?promocode=NortonCRMBreachScan&nc=pifnortontolifelock&psn=
YeVonne:I checked the email breach icon and entered 3 email addresses which all came back as being comprised.....
Hi YeVonne:
The Norton LifeLock e-mail breach detection tool that users access when they click the Check Now button on the Equifax pop-up alert sounds similar to the Have I Been Pwned? website managed by Troy Hunt, a Microsoft Regional Director, at https://haveibeenpwned.com/. When I enter the e-mail address I normally use for registering in public forums at the Have I Been PWned? site I can see that my Adobe and Malwarebytes accounts were involved in past data breaches.
In both those cases I was (eventually 
) notified by Adobe (October 2013) and Malwarebytes (November 2014) that member records had been exposed when the servers hosting their user forums were hacked and that I should change the login password for my accounts.
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It is possible that your Amazon account was compromised. Unlikely that this had anything to do with Equifax, as they would not know your Amazon account password. I would certainly suggest using two-factor authentication on Amazon, as well as all of your other accounts.
I got the same Norton Equifax popup a few days ago, and just today my Amazon.com account was apparently breached by an email purportedly from China: my email was changed to <removed>. What's really weird, is that when you go to Amazon 'Orders,' the Sign-in page comes up and this changed email already appears pre-filled in the email field. It's freaking me out. I reported it to Amazon tonight, and they are investigating. I wonder if it has to do with this Norton Utilities notification about the Equifax security breach. Also, when I went to my 'Cart' page at Amazon there appeared a rectangular box with the little blue 'i' information symbol and a Chinese flag with a bunch of oriental symbols, which I assume to be Chinese, since it's certainly that country's orange-red flag with a large yellow star and 4 others at its circumference.
Hi YeVonne,
I think you are confusing different products, different types of protection, and the difference between an email account and an email address.
Norton can scan emails that you download to your computer, but it cannot scan remote servers that belong to your email service provider. It can only protect the data stored on the machine on which it is installed. It cannot protect an "account," which, again, is a service provided by your email company.
To protect an email account, you need to use a strong password that you do not use on any other website. You should also use two-factor authentication, if your email provider offers it (most now do). This will prevent any unauthorized access to your account. The only way your email account can be compromised is if someone gets your password, which can only happen if you inadvertently disclose it (such as by entering it in a phishing email form) or if your email service provider gets hacked. Note that Norton has no power to prevent either of these things, although it can often warn you about phishing attempts.
I think the breach tool you used looks for your email address on the dark internet, websites used by criminals. The fact that your email addresses were found means that the addresses have somehow been collected by the bad guys, possibly from a data breach somewhere. I don't think it means your accounts have necessarily been compromised. Addresses and accounts are not the same thing. I can know the address of the house you live in, but that doesn't mean I have a key to your front door that will let me in.
I checked the email breach icon and entered 3 email addresses which all came back as being comprised..I have Norton Security Premium and was under the impression that Norton was scanning and protecting my email accounts. Is this not true?
Hello, I'm new here. Signed on to my computer and saw an alert from Norton regarding the Equifax Breach, does anybody know if this alert is legitimate about how to find out if your email/info was brecahed?
You might like to check this thread - https://community.norton.com/en/forums/equifax-announces-cybersecurity-incident-involving-consumer-information.
The popup shown in @bjm_'s post above is a legitimate popup from your Norton product, alerting customers about the recent breach alert. The link goes to the LifeLock website, also a legitimate website. Thanks.
A Norton popup appeared this morning, with a red banner "Breach Alert" referring to Equifax data breach, offering "our email breach detection tool", with a yellow box to click "check now". I found no such tool in Norton web sites. Is this real?
Norton and LifeLock have joined forces to give you the protection that you need.
A major credit bureau just experienced a breach potentially impacting 143 million people. With your personal info, criminals can open accounts, file tax returns, buy property and more.