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startrekonline.com
Got an email saying I had a password come up online. The above message is from manually typing in passwords.google.com, and then checking. Change your passwords people! I had a pretty strong one, at least by the old rules for passwords (decent length, letters, numbers, upper and lower case.) Now I need to figure out something I can both remember since I have to manually type it in each time with the stand-alone client and still decent... cap of 14 char max password is rather annoying.
Edit: My new Arc password isn't registering for STO itself, only the forums... great. That's where the value is. Already had one of my other games get TRIBBLE so they could resale the items I had.
Edit2: It looks like the password Google thinks I have for STO is a very old one, so I don't know how worrisome this should really be. I guess it was stored a long time ago when I was using Chrome, but I use Firefox on PC nowadays.
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The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Good to know, but I have a green checkmark on the page for unique passwords and only STO was noted as being breached. Still, an extremely good idea to change all the passwords to unique new ones if this happens to anyone, doubly so if the site has any sort of monetary value that could be gained.
FYI, the unique checkmark means unique for ones that Google has stored for auto-login.
Google looks at all user - password combos for all sites it finds on the darkweb, then matches them against the user - password combos that you have let it store.
If you created an account at RandomSite12.com with that username - password, did not let Google store it for you, and then that site was TRIBBLE, Google would show the STO password as unique.
(STO forums might well have been TRIBBLE at some point, I'm just pointing out that it might also have been any other site that had the same user-password combo. Re-using passwords is not good.)