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What's with the security and data breach notificatio?

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I don't like clicking on links that look like that...worried about third party scams. Is there something we need to know?
 
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This was accidentally posted in the wrong forum. Can someone please move it to the appropriate forum? Thanks
 
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It's not a scam. I received an email a couple days ago of my password on this forum changed, so I went on this site and read the link. From what it looks like, the company that the forum uses as a platform had a major data breach in Feb, but it was detected only recently. News link here:

45m passwords stolen from over 1,100 VerticalScope forums

Personally identifiable information for 4.5 M accounts were leaked in an attack which may include usernames/email addresses/passwords. If you use the same email and password combination for other online accounts (facebook, gmail, etc), you should log into those and change your passwords. As a rule of thumb, never use the same email/username and password combo anywhere.
 
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Thanks Sunnyseas
 
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