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You don't need to give them your password or phone number, just the email address associated with your account(s). Adding a phone number would be optional.
by mjschultz 15y ago
You don't need to give them your password or phone number, just the email address associated with your account(s). Adding a phone number would be optional.
- maratd 15y agoYou don't get it. If your account shows up in their database, then they'll have your email + password + phone number + any other data you provided.
- tlrobinson 15y agoHuh? You don't need to give them anything except for your email address. They only look for your email address in the compromised databases.
- whatusername 15y agoYes you do if you subscribe for notifications.
- tlrobinson 15y agoI still don't understand. Why?
- whatusername 15y agoThe OP comment was: "It'd be cool if they added an option to subscribe for $10/year for a quick SMS and email notification if your account is compromised. I'd get it for myself and my family." To enable this - you are giving your email, password, Payment details and Cell Phone number. The site as it stands today doesn't ask for any of this -- but if they were to take payments and do SMS notification they would.
- dagrz 15y agoIf we decided to do notifications I would expect users to not re-use passwords from other sites. I would also expect that such a service would require a trusted security brand behind it to work.
- cli 15y agoWhat he means is this: you subscribe by telling the site your email. Then, if they ever find your email in one of the publicly released documents, then they will notify you by email.
- stingraycharles 15y agoWhat if your email is the account being compromised?
- dagrz 15y agoI guess thats why you might add a mobile number