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Black market alert?

Just signed up yesterday and received an e-mail saying my info was posted to a black market website. The creation was from May of 2016. It shows my e-mail and password but the password is just a jumbled up mess. I check my credit score frequently and haven't noticed any changes that weren't related to something I did. What should I do? 

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Re: Black market alert?

It's a useless warning.  Hundreds of millions of accounts get "hacked" from forums and social network sites and end up on black markets.  The jumbled password is probably a hash which is useless.

 

The best thing to do is to not use the same password on any two sites.  I usually sign up for new forums using a throwaway email address but that's a lot of work.

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