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SB172 Does not use a personal email address that has been compromised in a data breach

Email addresses that have been compromised in data breaches are often shared or sold amongst cyber criminals. Other criminals then use these email addresses in their attempts to illegally access other people's accounts. This means that any account that these email accounts are at greater risk of phishing. Worse still, they breach often includes passwords so if the email account holder re-uses this password for other email accounts it will be easier for cyber criminals to unlawfully access these accounts too.


Why is it important?

Compromised email addresses are more likely to be reused in further attacks. Not using personal email addresses that have been compromised reduces the risk of another security incident at home.

Priority Tier

Behaviours in SebDB are ranked by their impact on risk. Tier 1 behaviours have the biggest impact, Tier 4 behaviours the least.

Tier 1

Risk Mitigated

Further reading

https://www.arcserve.com/blog/how-secure-your-email-if-your-data-hacked

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