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Isn’t the idea that you don’t need haveibeenpowned since you’ll see mails coming in and then know your details have leaked?

For ID fraud, more than an email address has to be leaked.



Have I been pwned will tell me if the associated password for that site leaked. I create unique passwords per site, but lets say my mastercard login gets pwned -- that'd be one I want to change the password for right away.

I might not get an email if someone gets that account info.


In theory, I agree.

In practice, anything that high-profile will be plastered all over every tech news site, twitter, reddit, probably even the news. It would be difficult for MasterCard/Visa to have dataleaks, even just email/pass, fly under the radar (I imagine...)

Oracle tried to cover up a data leak, and it didn't go great. Oracle touches nowhere near as many every-day people as MasterCard does




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