Why did I receive an email indicating pwned on the JustDate fabricated breach, but when I search from the Home page, not listed?
Why did I receive an email indicating pwned on the JustDate fabricated breach, but when I search from the Home page, only the Linkedin breach is noted? Is it possible that the email was spoofed? It looks almost exactly like the one i received when you posted the Linkedin breach. I suspect many others are in this same situation. Esp. if the Justdate breach was indeed 24 million people as the email indicated. Thanks.
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It’s fully explained in the link in the email: https://www.troyhunt.com/introducing-fabricated-data-breaches-to-have-i-been-pwned/
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DG
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Got it. Tx!! Tremendous service!!
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Per the explanation in the blog post, because it's a dating site the breach has been flagged as "sensitive" so is not publicly searchable. Use the notification service and you'll get an email with a private link that will show it.
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DG
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Tx troy. But altho the email explains your process and reasoning for fabricated breaches, it doesn't explain why I received the email, but the site does NOT return the JustDate fabricated breach when I search on that email address. Something still amiss here. If I received the email based on a specific email address, I should see the JustDate breach returned when search HIBP on that email address. No?