This Site Will Tell You If Your Accounts Have Been Compromised
Here’s something that isn’t directly photography-related but is relevant to pretty much every photographer: if you’ve never heard of it before, you should check out the website Have I Been Pwned? It lets you search for your email addresses and passwords to see if any of your accounts have been compromised through security breaches.
There is currently data obtained from 269 compromised websites that have leaked over 4.8 billion user account details onto the Web. Among the compromised websites are photo-related and commonly used ones you will be familiar with (and some you likely use). Big names include Adobe, Snapchat, Imgur, Kickstarter, Comcast, Tumblr, and Dropbox.
We ran several emails to test the service and discovered breaches for every single one. For one email, the website revealed that an Adobe account used by PetaPixel was compromised and that the email and password were likely no longer secure.
In addition to looking up email addresses, there’s also a separate search form for looking up passwords.
If you find that any passwords can be found in the giant list of half a billion passwords obtained from past breaches (the site will tell you how many time it appears), you should change that password immediately and never use it again.