@Curious_George2 wrote:
I wouldn't sweat it. The vast majority of those alerts are about insignificant stuff.
My email address is very vanilla (similar to george at yahoo dot com, but not that) so a lot of people give out my real email address as their fake one. Some of the companies they give it to then have data breaches. So I get tons of those alerts telling me that my email address is on The Dark Web. Sounds scary (scary enough for me to pay for more monitoring, they hope!). But in my case, like yours, the info that's out there is innocuous. Scammers have my email address and your phone number, perhaps with other names attached to them. The only bad thing they can do with that is send us more spam. No big deal.
Good info for people who really are not familiar with all the things they get notified about (dark web emails found, phone numbers found, passwords found on old sites you don't use anymore "Myspace".
Half of the stuff found on the darkweb is in the public domain on you.
Irregardless it's always a good thing to change your passwords occasionally and use different ones across your accounts.
Along with notices like these I get so tired of random emails claiming I have so many millions of dollars to collect and also those...
"Your Paypal account has been limited" and not to forget ones I have seen frequently of late stating "Your order is on the way" from so and so and I haven't ever ordered from so and so.
Also one thing to note when you get spam mail just Delete It instead of hitting an Unsubscribe button...usually that button unleashes malware or leads to fake sites that capture your info.
The only alerts I really pay attention to are the ones that I have set up in my accounts triggered by set parameters.
