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I haven't opened the email, I'm just looking at the preview that gmail provides and it contains the name of my email with the first character missing and most of my phone number, like I stated in the title of my post. How concerned, if at all, should I be and is there anything I should be doing?

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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The scariest threat in the event you're affected by the data breach is if someone has enough information to open credit in your name. There's a website you can look yourself up on. I have it in my pc I think, but not my phone. They have my name and ssn, but an old address that's not valid any more. Maybe someone can link it. I'll see if I can find it in the morning if no one does.

2FA is good to use when available.

That's mainly it. It could be the most likely threat is to email you scary things to try to get you to click on the wrong thing. Or calling you up with the classic threat that the sheriff is on his way to arrest you now over some outstanding debt. I know wtf I'm doing with security and I've still fallen for a phishing scheme (caught it before any harm was some, but still clicked the damn email). My wife fell for the sheriff thing—sucks when they do find a blemish on your credit to really sell you on they are a real debt collector.

[–] vortexal@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

That's the reason I don't open random emails and I never answer the phone unless I'm expecting a call/text from a specific number. I'm too paranoid about getting scammed/hacked. I'd be using 2FA if it wasn't for the fact that I'd have concerns about potentially loosing access to my accounts because the trusted device stops working or something.