This notification is not attributed to any source, it refers to a finding in the underground market In January 2019, a file containing aggregated exposed data, was found in the underground communities exposing 2200000000 records containing emails and passwords. A bit concerning how little is discoverable about this particular breach. I could not find any evidence / included records from this 4iQ Password Repository. I should have recollected the Watchtower source. Thanks for the clarification about the Watchtower data source.
Let me put up the exact wording from the monitoring service. Also, since all my passwords are unique, just because my email address appeared, it does not mean a particular service was impacted. Question to you: is Watchtower integrated with this 41Q password repository? Could you describe the exactly what is being checked (email only, password and email, or password only) if it is?īecause of my use of the Gmail + trick, there are probably more email combinations affected by this issue. The monitoring service remediation recommendation is to change password for all logins using the flagged email address as user ID. My googling about this particular 41Q has not turned up much of anything meaningful. I only configured my basic non-plus email address in the monitoring service, because I didn't want to enter 250 different MyName+SERVICE1-N AT email combinations. I also make use of the "+" trick that Gmail offers and where I can, my user ID is MyName+SERVICENAME AT. I do not reuse passwords between sites, so with my 300 logins, I have 300 unique passwords for those logins. The dates of the breach are different for the two email addresses as well, Dec 2017 and Feb 2019. Something called the "41Q password repository" apparently contains passwords associated with at least two of my email addresses. One element monitored is email addresses, which I configured.
#4iq password repository free#
bad guys phished my personal data from a government agency and I was extended use of free a monitoring service.
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