Was your email account harvested by the dangerous Emotet botnet? Here’s how to find out

[Andy Meek]

The creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach alert website is once again urging Internet users to check his site to see if their data has been caught up in yet another high-profile security incident -- the incident, this time, being a botnet called Emotet, which the European Union's law enforcement arm has described as "the world's most dangerous malware."

What happened: Emotet has been rampaging all over the Internet since 2014, but it was finally taken down by a joint law enforcement effort earlier this year between the US, Canada, and Europe. The botnet had ended up harvesting a few million email addresses, and the FBI thought the best way to let those people know about the issue was to give the 4.3 million addresses to Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt's service, which is regarded as a gold-standard resource for checking to see if your data has potentially been compromised or is in danger of being compromised thanks to the litany of leaks, stolen credentials, hacks, data breaches and the like that now occur on a pretty regular basis.

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