I dont know what to do.. I have purchased something from a brand website and in a data leak incident..my name, address, email and phone was breach…
The email and phone number is used in daily life and idk what to do…
Also this happened for the second time…previously my email address was leaked in data breach
There isn’t much to do with the data already out there. Use email aliases, random usernames, and random names if possible.
is your passwords also affected? If so immediately go to the site that was breached and change it (are you reffering to paypal btw?)
For e-mail and phone number, the only thing I can recommend is change both, for e-mail: scrap your old one and start using email aliases, for phone number: contact your local carrier you use and then your family and friends for a new phone number arrangement. Tell your carrier and them the reason is that your (old) phone number was found in a data breach and leaked on the dark web like you said and if needed provide proof to where you found it and finally switch to VoIP phone number to use instead if possible.
If you’re unwilling to change phone number or email, then unfortunately that data just stays out there.
I have used that website for just buying a single product and I havent even created account there. I have just given my data for shipping. Beside that there is nothing more.
Main thing is that I have my yt channel with that email and its there in bank accounts, unis, so ut will take lots of time to remove that from everywhere.
I see, and how are you sure you’re in that dataset, did the company sent a data breach letter or email to you? or found out through HaveIBeenPwned?
The address is more extreme than ever as that means moving to another house/apartment and that’s extreme by today’s economy tbh, so unless you’re constituting targeted attack threat model then yeah. And so are the other data, you don;t have to follow it this is just the only recommendation that can be given in the event of data breach. (though switching to email aliases will save you all the headache in the next time so that’s a great solution to implement since it’s just a matter of changing the alias and scrapping the old one, you could also similarly switch to VoIP Phone number)
The other is to take it to court to something like the Eagle Team if you have received a letter. And then otherwise not much options
There is media reports and official statement of the company. I scanned my data using Google dark web scan
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You don’t have to do everything all at once. Focus on the important accounts first. Unimportant accounts can wait later.