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Black Mail (telegra.ph)
1 points by yeuking 2256 days ago
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I received those too, and I ignored them. Some (usually old) sites storage passwords as plain text, and if that kind of database gets hacked, they spam you those black mails, often assuming you use the same password everywhere. As a safety measure, changing the password should be enough, and in the future use throw-away e-mails for shady sites, and two-factor authentication for trustful ones.
thanks for suggestion
I have received this email from unknown sender. Should I ignore this email? Since he mention my really old password on email.
Ignore it. They got the password from a data breach somewhere.

Change the password on any other site that you use that password for.

Using a password manager makes it much easier to use unique, complex passwords for each site you have a login for.

Thanks, anyway I have changed all the password since that time.