We live in an era where behind every click, webpage, download, we are facing the threat of suffering a cyber attack that can steal our personal data, financial data, or both.
With all these threats and attacks, our information is at more risk than ever, despite the fact that apps and platforms work every day to strengthen, enhance and improve the security measures and protection they offer, cybercriminals often get away with it.
This leaves us users in a situation where we don’t really know what to do, but above all, we don’t know if these attacks on companies or entities to which we belong or are associated with in any way directly affect us.
As a general rule, if you are, for example, a customer of Iberdrola in the coming weeks, you should be very careful about possible scams that may come your way, in addition to changing your access credentials to your profile.
But if you want to be completely sure whether or not they have your information, there is a website that manages a giant database and detects if your information has been hacked and put up for sale on any hacker forum.
This is the You have been Pwnd platform, and it is a service where you have to enter your email address and it analyzes hundreds of the most famous and used hacker forums in a matter of seconds to detect if your email appears in any of these stolen databases.
What to do if you have been hacked
- The first and most important thing is to change the passwords of the affected profiles.
- Report the incident to the authorities and follow their advice.
- Inform your friends and family of what happened to prevent them from being scammed in your name.
- Be careful in the coming weeks if you notice unusual activity in your accounts.
