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    HBC data leak?

    Upon logging in today, I was notified by Apple via phone alert and email that my password for HBC (and another very popular Canadian gun site) was compromised via a data leak...

    anyone else experience this?
    used different passwords on both sites, can no longer get onto the other site but was able to salvage my password here..

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    Re: HBC data leak?

    That's Chrome bullshit.
    It's not true.
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    Re: HBC data leak?

    Quote Originally Posted by adriaticum View Post
    That's Chrome bullshit.
    It's not true.
    I don’t use Chrome... and considering this is the second time I’ve got this alert (previously unrelated) and last time it was 100% true as a week later the company went public about a data breach.. I’m going to err on the side of caution here.

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    Re: HBC data leak?

    Both above mentioned sites as well, changed passwords on for more entertainment!
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    Re: HBC data leak?

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    Re: HBC data leak?

    I've not seen anything and I scrutinize the new member applications hard near every day. They have to have a legitimate e-mail address or they get punted. That said I'd not worry about it. Hell most members here don't even use their own name!! And well all hunt in Reg 9 !!
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    Re: HBC data leak?

    either way this serves as a good reminder to not reuse passwords across sites and to make use of a password manager application that will automatically create secure passwords for for ya

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    Re: HBC data leak?

    I use the same password and username for all of the bs sites like this where I don’t care if people steal info and different passwords for every important thing like banking, cra
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