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I was always frustrated by this service because it is good to tell you that you have been pwned and your email appears in a breach but sadly it is more often than not more scary than useful as you can't see exactly what has been leaked about you. Especially your password.

I understand the rational to hide the details, but bad actors like criminal probably have the source file with the details anyway.

What annoys me is that it is good to know that your email appears in a random pastebin agglomerating hundreds of leaks but if they don't give the exact name and date of the site, and without seeing the password it is hard to know who leaked your data and which password to change.

The worse is that I was used to use a very shitty simple password for all the sites that ask one without needing one (let's say media with free subscription needed to read a single article, Free conference or online webinar), ... and these one are the best targets to have leaks despite them being totally harmless if you take care to not give your personal info inside.



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