I was looking at a dark web warning. It said that my email and password were located on ShareThis.com. I don't remember ever hearing of this web site. Why would they even have my email and password? I read that ShareThis.com changed the passwords or disabled those accounts or something. But I'm wondering how I got on this. Could some sort of malware have foisted this on me without my knowing?
I presume just changing the password is sufficient for protection, but I wonder about how this even happened.
Doh! I have a somewhat unique last name. And when I added accounts for Norton to search for, I used the wrong account. Surprisingly to me, someone else had my same account name when I went to create a google account so I changed it a little. But when I added it to Norton, I used the account name I usually use, forgetting that I had to change it for google.
So the alerts from Norton that surprised me like ShareThis.com really were someone else's account. So I put the correct name in there now.
Yes, I've been changing all passwords. I was hoping to find out how it might have gotten there in the first place so that I could avoid that happening again. thanks.
Kindly visit this website and input your respective email ID you will get to know which website compromised and on which website credentials sold or exposed.
It's not about whether you input your credentials on mentioned website or not but it's particular website where we login to purchase somethings or doing alike.
For eg. If I created an account on xyz.com and there users details compromised by stealers. Then your informations will display on Dark Web.
It is possible that some other web site you registered with shared your email address, and possibly the password. This should not happen at any web site, but some site you registered may have been hacked, where the login information might have been stolen and sold to ShareThis.com.
If you have never gone to that site, you cannot change any password. The trick is going to be trying to figure out what site might have been compromised.
If you are really concerned, and you cannot figure out where your information may have been stolen, you can go to all the current sites you log into and change your password. In an extreme move, you could abandon your current email address and start using a new one. Then register that new email address with all the sites you regularly log into.
Norton Dark Web Monitoring SAID it was exposed. My question is, how could I have gotten my user and password exposed by ShareThis.com if I haven't visited it before? I suppose someone else could have used some credentials there using my email address. But I would think that would have had to be verified with an email (which I didn't get). Or maybe this is a false reading by Norton (or whoever is there source of the information)?