First and foremost, I would never pay for one.
I have something through a credit card from Norton, not Lifelock, but Identity Lock or something like that. I did not put a lot of information in, but it does two things of some value: (1) it alerts me when there is a data breach, just a generic email, and (2) it will alerts me when a dark web hit occurs on an email address I have entered into the system for tracking.
So it will says something like the following information was found on the dark web: Lastrun@bogleheads.com Password: ********1234 (and it will be redacted like this)
This is helpful to me for bad password management with poor log-in credentials to unimportant sites over the years, so I can make sure that they are not in current use. But I suspect you could do this with just some of the free websites.
Incidentally and of interest, I received an email from this service about a year ago that makes me think the LastPass breach stuff a couple of years ago is out there. It was my wife’e email and a password that was like. **********%Lu!$vX. Something she would never have used except in LastPass.
I have something through a credit card from Norton, not Lifelock, but Identity Lock or something like that. I did not put a lot of information in, but it does two things of some value: (1) it alerts me when there is a data breach, just a generic email, and (2) it will alerts me when a dark web hit occurs on an email address I have entered into the system for tracking.
So it will says something like the following information was found on the dark web: Lastrun@bogleheads.com Password: ********1234 (and it will be redacted like this)
This is helpful to me for bad password management with poor log-in credentials to unimportant sites over the years, so I can make sure that they are not in current use. But I suspect you could do this with just some of the free websites.
Incidentally and of interest, I received an email from this service about a year ago that makes me think the LastPass breach stuff a couple of years ago is out there. It was my wife’e email and a password that was like. **********%Lu!$vX. Something she would never have used except in LastPass.
Statistics: Posted by Lastrun — Sun Aug 04, 2024 2:25 pm — Replies 8 — Views 339