@Andrew: Thank you very much for the info.
Here is what I personally know about the data breach: Yesterday (Wednesday Oct. 9) I checked one of my email accounts that I use exclusively for accessing my internet archive account. The only messages I receive on this account are from the internet archive, but I was surprised to discover a message from a "Paypal Service" saying something like I should connect to my Paypal account (following the provided link of course) to do something with my account, I could not figure out and remember exactly what, because the message was apparently in French (![:roll:]( "Rolling Eyes")
).
I don't have a Paypal account.
I don't communicate in French.
And since absolutely nobody knows of the existence of this account, it was clearly a scam, for which I wanted to know more.
I pasted the message in Google which returned immediately MANY posts.
Until I saw Andrew's post I was wondering how the message had reached my account, and I thought that maybe my email address had been "crafted blindly" .... and boom !!!, had hit a valid email account address (mine) .... Though I was really puzzled, because the email server of my account is not a very common/big server, like a gmail account.
So, now we have one example of the possible uses of the data breach![:x]( "Mad")
The hackers got a LONG list of email addresses they can use for nefarious effects ...![:mrgreen:]( "Mr. Green")
Now, If you read the article until the end, at the bottom of the web page there is a link to a data breach experienced by Fidelity Investments customers .....
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/s ... 00-people/
![:!:]( "Exclamation")
Good Luck ![:!:]( "Exclamation")
Here is what I personally know about the data breach: Yesterday (Wednesday Oct. 9) I checked one of my email accounts that I use exclusively for accessing my internet archive account. The only messages I receive on this account are from the internet archive, but I was surprised to discover a message from a "Paypal Service" saying something like I should connect to my Paypal account (following the provided link of course) to do something with my account, I could not figure out and remember exactly what, because the message was apparently in French (
). I don't have a Paypal account.
I don't communicate in French.
And since absolutely nobody knows of the existence of this account, it was clearly a scam, for which I wanted to know more.
I pasted the message in Google which returned immediately MANY posts.
Until I saw Andrew's post I was wondering how the message had reached my account, and I thought that maybe my email address had been "crafted blindly" .... and boom !!!, had hit a valid email account address (mine) .... Though I was really puzzled, because the email server of my account is not a very common/big server, like a gmail account.
So, now we have one example of the possible uses of the data breach
The hackers got a LONG list of email addresses they can use for nefarious effects ...
Now, If you read the article until the end, at the bottom of the web page there is a link to a data breach experienced by Fidelity Investments customers .....
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/s ... 00-people/
Good Luck Statistics: Posted by juverax — Thu Oct 10, 2024 8:31 pm