Hack Alerts!!!

Good Plan.....
And thanks for the warning.

Although I dont have a CNET account.... some on here may.

this comes as little to no surprise. sad thing is these people feel they are entitled to hijack our attention and we have less recourse than a child dealing with the school bully.

Thanks for the heads up freegan, but this one seems kind of phishy to me. 1.2 billion data entries from 420.000 sites and nobody's been out to warn their customers? It hasn't even been in the news? Seems a little weird... Especially the whole "working on a secure way of allowing people to check the dataset for their own passwords to see if they've been compromised"-bit. How exactly would that work? I see only two ways for me to sift through those 1.2 billion data entries to find out if something of mine was taken:

1: Spend a sickening amount of time going down the list manually, which would probably yield no results at all since I wouldn't be able to see the woods for the trees, or

2: assuming they'll put in a search function, type in each string of info that I'm worried this alleged hacker group may have gotten their hands on, meaning I'll have to type in my passwords, my credit card number or my bank account number in order to find out if they have them already.

So I'll essentially be in a "secure" environment, controlled by someone I don't know and expected to blindly trust that they aren't trying to coax my info out of me themselves by telling me there's a threat and that they have the solution? Yeah, that's not happening!

I'll gladly change my passwords - I do that on a regular basis anyway - but there's no way I'll be handing over my info to this company, just so they can do whatever they want with it and claim that I signed it over to them myself afterwards. It's potentially a good scam though, if that's what they're doing.