I haven’t opened the email, I’m just looking at the preview that gmail provides and it contains the name of my email with the first character missing and most of my phone number, like I stated in the title of my post. How concerned, if at all, should I be and is there anything I should be doing?

  • rmtworks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Considering how many data breaches have happened this year alone, I wouldn’t be very surprised if your phone number was leaked in one of them, along with your email address. Make sure you use unique passwords for all your online accounts (a password manager can help with this).

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      4 months ago

      I’ve literally gotten spam emails that include a real password I’ve used in the past in the subject with some vaguely threatening message. Thanks to all these leaks, spammers are getting more targeted. Luckily I’ve been generating all my passwords for the last few years so I don’t have to worry about specific passwords getting out as much anymore.

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      4 months ago

      I do already use different passwords for every account that I have and I changed my Gmail password recently. Is there anything else I should be worried about?

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        You can use email aliases or even go as far as a phone alias as well.

        Been using Mozilla relay for a while and the phone number option is nice to mask your real number for some things.

        It does report as a VOIP number so some services can’t use it.