{"id":16082,"date":"2024-11-12T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:35","slug":"it-tip-check-if-your-accounts-have-been-compromised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/it-tip-check-if-your-accounts-have-been-compromised\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Tip: Check if your accounts have been compromised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        IT Tip: Check if your accounts have been compromised\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>You may have a number of on line accounts and when account breaches occur you may not be informed that your account information has been compromised. Your account info could then be available on the internet, in a practice called a \u2018pawned\u2019 account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a great site out there that collects data breaches and it can identify if your email is listed! You can check if your account\/email here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If your email is listed in an exploit then you should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>not use that password anymore (it is listed publicly!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>if possible try to change the password on the exploited site or close the account if you are not using it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason it is good practice to use unique passwords for every account you have!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have a number of on line accounts and when account breaches occur you may not be informed that your account information has been compromised. Your account info could then be available on the internet, in a practice called a \u2018pawned\u2019 account. There is a great site out there that collects data breaches and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16124,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions\/16124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}