183 million email accounts breached. How to check yours.
A new email breach was recently revealed, and the number of affected accounts is pretty staggering. Some 183 million email accounts were reportedly compromised.
The breach was revealed by Have I Been Pwned, which notes it includes both email addresses and corresponding passwords. The breach occurred in April and was added to Have I Been Pwned this week. The email addresses and passwords were apparently stolen via malware.
While your email being breached might not necessarily mean you're going to be the victim of an attack of some kind, it's probably best to know if you were breached. Luckily enough, checking is pretty simple.
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How to check if your email has been hacked
Simply enough, you can check on Have I Been Pwned, where the breach info was posted. They have a search page, where you just enter your email address and see if you've been hacked aka Pwned.
So, what do you do if your password has been breached? It's simple enough: Change your password and potentially enable two-factor authentication. When it doubt, it's best to be safe.
Topics Cybersecurity Privacy
Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).
