Stop what you’re doing and check here to see if your email credentials have been stolen

[Andy Meek]

• Data breaches and hacks are a fact of life and often unavoidable for Internet users, since your passwords and email addresses are so often handled by businesses like hotels and credit card companies that you don't have any control over.
• The recent "Compilation of Many Breaches" underscores just how little control people often have over where their data ends up.
• Be that as it may, here are some steps you can take to keep your accounts safe, data breaches notwithstanding.

Here's a new habit you should probably add somewhat regularly to the list of actions you take to keep your email safe from hackers and any unwanted intrusion, in addition to taking steps like adding 2-factor authentication to your account and changing your password regularly.

We've already written this week about the “Compilation of Many Breaches,” or COMB, a massive data set comprised of 3.2 billion email-and-password combinations that's just been posted online. It’s not the result of a new hack or data breach, though. These credentials were stolen from different previous hacks and breaches, but their publication now makes this quite possibly the largest-ever compilation of stolen user credentials ever published. With a number that big -- 3.2 billion pairs of email addresses and usernames! -- it's a pretty sure bet that you're caught up in this. I know I was, and that's because of a database I easily checked, and then from there, you can take whatever additional steps you want for some peace of mind.

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