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jes2009
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Using Web Advisor to change passwords following data breaches but I am seeing several sites listed for which I do not have, and never knowingly have had, an account with. How come and what should I do?

Tx

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Kumar_suman
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Re: data breaches

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Hi @jes2009 ,

Regards from mcafee. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

We have sent a private message, Please do respond.

Thanks and regards,

Kumar

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Kumar_suman
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Re: data breaches

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Hi @jes2009 ,

Regards from mcafee. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

We have sent a private message, Please do respond.

Thanks and regards,

Kumar

jes2009
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Re: data breaches

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so the only way to get rid of it from the "New Breaches" list is to say I've dealt with it so it moves into "addressed breaches"?

Kumar_suman
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Hi @jes2009 

Yes, we request you to mark the alert as addressed breaches. Please provide the requested information in private message if you would like to investigate it further.

 

Regards

Kumar

 

jes2009
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Re: data breaches

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where is private msge?

 

jes2009
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I found it it is the mail icon

Califia48
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Well, I got a new data breach that indicates it was from a cellular subscriber data.  Does that mean they got it from my provider or that it just came off my phone?  I have found that though I have VPN protection it seldom stays on or presumably comes on to tell me anything.  Always says I'm fine and yet that breach happened two days ago.  Also, they list other breaches from two years ago which I have seen before.  Thing is that they are so old, though someone is still using one of them, that I don't have the password anymore so I can't change them.  All the sites are ones I haven't used in years.  So, what do we do then.  I tried to go into one of them to change the password anyway and never got a reply to do so.  Any info anyone got from those old ones will have information that has changed except for my name.

SavedbyAV
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Message 8 of 8

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Same problem. Only data breaches are to sites I've never used before. Can't change the password if I don't know what the password is to begin with.

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