I recently suffered an unprecedented number of hacking attacks. The following accounts of mine were accessed:
- Patreon
- Amazon (both accounts)
- Paypal (3 unauthorized purchases, 2 recovered, one denied)
- Microsoft (both accounts)
- LinkedIn (defaced)
- Google (3 accounts)
After changing all kinds of passwords, removing Paypal from all associated sites, and adding 2FA everywhere, I think I am out of serious danger now. Something similar also happened to my father, so it wasn't just me. What happened there?
Some of these passwords were repeated; some were previously-leaked passwords with small variation. However some were unique random char passwords.
And the strangest thing is that Google password manager tells me that some login info entries were leaked, which seem to be unique (random character combinations like 45irunfmeiu, but shorter than regular Google-suggested passwords).
What kind of leak can have exposed this many passwords of mine, especially different passwords, multiple of which are random numbers and letters which are unique?
