Apparently MyFitnessPal had their data breached, and my email address/password was in it.
Checking my emails, I can't see anything from them about this. Loads of the usual marketing crap, but nothing about a breach.
Not cool!
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#22I really wish Firefox would focus, and I don't mean Firefox Focus. If they focused on making it simple, fast, and reliable, it would have a much better shot at taking market share from Chrome. On top of that, I wish everything on top of a browser was truly optional - that they didn't have reminders of sync spread throughout the app, and that they didn't have a Pocket button in the toolbar unless I logged in with Pocket.
"Find out what hackers already know about you." unnecessarily grinds my gears, as a hacker (programmer) who wants Firefox to succeed.
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#23Have I been pwned prompted me to abandon my old addresses and switch to a provider that allows trash mails and email aliases.
Originally my address was breached by Dropbox and Kickstarter.
It took me many months to switch over, as I did not have a complete list of all services I had registered with.
So for many average people switching email adresses is often a very difficult task, so people keep them even in light of breaches.
More important for the average user is to have a good password management system and know whether a certain password has been hacked.
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#24I checked my email address and it says my data was lost by verifications.io. I've never heard of that site before and going there didn't reveal any clues. I googled the name and found a report [1] on the breach. They lost control of records on 2 billion email addresses. [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/03/10/2-billio...
Seems like all the cold calling useless recruiters and sales people built up extensive databases on their clients via this company and then promptly let all that data leak.
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#25Mozilla and Apple, lately, are the only companies I trust my data to. Nice to see more from both.
I find it difficult to trust Apple for security considering their morally bankrupt behaviour in rest of their business. They have proven their sole principle is monetary, so I find it difficult to perceive their recent claim to care about user security as anything beyond opportunism.
I can’t think of a big tech device company that’s any less driven by money than apple. What makes them so unique, in your mind? In my experience I’ve had less unwanted tracking and advertising, and better support compared to other phone and laptop manufacturers I used to buy from.
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#26I checked my email address and it says my data was lost by verifications.io. I've never heard of that site before and going there didn't reveal any clues. I googled the name and found a report [1] on the breach. They lost control of records on 2 billion email addresses. [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/03/10/2-billio...
Same here
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#27How does this relate to HaveIBeenPwned.com? Is it a separate effort? Does it have more data? Is it built on top of their data? I've seen other services (like 1Password) just rely on HaveIBeenPwned because it's pretty solid – seems like it would be nice for the industry to coalesce around it and build these kinds of alerting features on top of it.
Basically just a reskin.
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#28Looks like this doesn't include another feature of HaveIBeenPwned. Its cracked password hash database. If you trust their JavaScript, you can type in your passwords and see if they are on the list. If you're a little more paranoid you can download the hashes and do your own search.
Disclaimer: Monitor dev here ...
Watch this space: https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-addon/issues/142
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#29I was on 8fit, a fitness app. Was never notified of any breach. Lame.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it difficult to trust Apple for security considering their morally bankrupt behaviour in rest of their business. They have proven their sole principle is monetary, so I find it difficult to perceive their recent claim to care about user security as anything beyond opportunism.
I can’t think of a big tech device company that’s any less driven by money than apple. What makes them so unique, in your mind? In my experience I’ve had less unwanted tracking and advertising, and better support compared to other phone and laptop manufacturers I used to buy from.
Not everything needs to be a "big tech company", but you are right big tech companies are quite similar in this respect. At critical mass capitalism seems to cause companies to lose their driving principles that made them unique - their behaviour becomes more of a mindless ecology driven solely by money.
Now look at Mozilla, it's a non profit, look at everything it does, they have never lost their principles. They will never reach the scale of Apple, Google or Microsoft, and that's a good thing.
> What makes them so unique, in your mind?
Beyond the negatives that come at their scale, Apple are doing some systematically deceitful things directly to customers that make them stand out from other companies ([edit] talking about their attitude towards customers with defective hardware). If they think that little of individual customers, how could they possibly care about an individuals privacy?