Timeline for Received ransom email containing my password. How did they get my password?
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 11:17 | vote | accept | ahron | ||
| Apr 26, 2019 at 11:10 | history | edited | ahron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 8:52 | comment | added | Anders | Maybe a duplicate but perhaps not really: security.stackexchange.com/questions/195063/… | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 6:35 | comment | added | ahron | Thank you, that's very useful information. But it doesn't help me understand the timing of this scam. Those dumps would've been out for ages, is it a coincidence that 1 day after I view the email containing the password, I get the ransom note? | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 6:09 | comment | added | dave_thompson_085 | Yes this false threat using breached passwords has been going on about a year and scammers have been using 'hidden' text in HTML email to (try to) defeat filtering for well over a decade. PS: ransom is when they demand money to give back something of yours, either a person (commonly called a hostage) or property; when they demand money to refrain from doing something damaging, it's extortion, or robbery. | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 5:57 | history | edited | ahron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 5:50 | answer | added | Steffen Ullrich | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 5:27 | history | edited | ahron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 5:20 | history | asked | ahron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |