CAN LEAK EVERTHING! - threat email

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My wife just got this email below.

Anyone heard if it before and is it real? The emails comes from a Frank Black ([email protected]), with "Can Leak Everything" in subject line.

What bothers me is that the password he refers to (scratched out) is a password that I have used before on one of our email accounts, so either he got it from another leak, or somehow got access to the PC. It was never, however, used as the password on the PC itself (Windows loggon), or the email account that he sent the threat email to.

If he did get access to the PC, is it possible to extract the email passwords from a browser like Chrome. This would have been the method I would have logged into the email account on that specific PC.

Any advice on what to do?

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I wouldn't worry about it too much, I know other people that have received similar emails. The password he mentioned probably came from another leak on the web (and there have been so many in the past few years).

It's just a ploy to scare you to pay up. Just change any passwords that might still use the old/exposed password and you should be fine. Unless you have some serious "underworld" stuff on your PC you are worried about being leaked...

** This is just my opinion and I will not be held accountable for any loss or damage for using or not using it :)
 
leonb said:
My wife just got this email below.

Anyone heard if it before and is it real? The emails comes from a Frank Black ([email protected]), with "Can Leak Everything" in subject line.

What bothers me is that the password he refers to (scratched out) is a password that I have used before on one of our email accounts, so either he got it from another leak, or somehow got access to the PC. It was never, however, used as the password on the PC itself (Windows loggon), or the email account that he sent the threat email to.

If he did get access to the PC, is it possible to extract the email passwords from a browser like Chrome. This would have been the method I would have logged into the email account on that specific PC.

Any advice on what to do?

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Very common strategy. They have nothing. Just carry on and have a nice day :)
 
leonb said:
My wife just got this email below.

Anyone heard if it before and is it real? The emails comes from a Frank Black ([email protected]), with "Can Leak Everything" in subject line.

What bothers me is that the password he refers to (scratched out) is a password that I have used before on one of our email accounts, so either he got it from another leak, or somehow got access to the PC. It was never, however, used as the password on the PC itself (Windows loggon), or the email account that he sent the threat email to.

If he did get access to the PC, is it possible to extract the email passwords from a browser like Chrome. This would have been the method I would have logged into the email account on that specific PC.

Any advice on what to do?

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Pop her email into this https://haveibeenpwned.com/

It is 99.9999999% spam and the spammer is just using data from a database leak to shotgun scam the world with the hope of a few people falling for it. I get the emails all the time.
 
His private malware...lol. Sounds like and STD...

Yea, just ignore it.

I have yearly password phrases, and the email I received was from my 2011 pass phrase.

Just ensure that all your critical passwords are new and fairly complex, and you will be fine.
 
Im guessing this one password was used for everything.
 
I got a similar email a while ago, went straight into the trash
 
calypso said:
Im guessing this one password was used for everything.
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No.

What is strange though, is that that the password they mention was never used by my wife or with the email address that the threat email was sent to. So I'm not sure how the two was linked.
 
leonb said:
My wife just got this email below.

Anyone heard if it before and is it real? The emails comes from a Frank Black ([email protected]), with "Can Leak Everything" in subject line.

What bothers me is that the password he refers to (scratched out) is a password that I have used before on one of our email accounts, so either he got it from another leak, or somehow got access to the PC. It was never, however, used as the password on the PC itself (Windows loggon), or the email account that he sent the threat email to.

If he did get access to the PC, is it possible to extract the email passwords from a browser like Chrome. This would have been the method I would have logged into the email account on that specific PC.

Any advice on what to do?

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leonb said:
No.

What is strange though, is that that the password they mention was never used by my wife or with the email address that the threat email was sent to. So I'm not sure how the two was linked.
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Old scam - they get a few passwords right if it was in a leak and if you're scared you will pay them.


Tell your wife if she wants to have some fun reply thanks for the heads up she deleted all her files in error if he can please send the link to where he uploaded it so she can download it. :)
 
Scooby_Doo said:
Pop her email into this https://haveibeenpwned.com/

It is 99.9999999% spam and the spammer is just using data from a database leak to shotgun scam the world with the hope of a few people falling for it. I get the emails all the time.
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+1 to this. The site is legit. Basically he gets all the leaks etc and puts them in one big db (just the email and which leak it was in, not the passwords).

Personally I use LastPass and have most sites using generated passwords, and I use 2FA and Authy for anything "important".
 
leonb said:
My wife just got this email below.

Anyone heard if it before and is it real? The emails comes from a Frank Black ([email protected]), with "Can Leak Everything" in subject line.

What bothers me is that the password he refers to (scratched out) is a password that I have used before on one of our email accounts, so either he got it from another leak, or somehow got access to the PC. It was never, however, used as the password on the PC itself (Windows loggon), or the email account that he sent the threat email to.

If he did get access to the PC, is it possible to extract the email passwords from a browser like Chrome. This would have been the method I would have logged into the email account on that specific PC.

Any advice on what to do?

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It's possible to get all your passwords from Chrome - if you gave it permission to store it.
 
I got one of these a while back, but it was one of those "we have videos of you choking the chicken, give BTC or we will send them to your contacts". I then went through the motions of getting a decent password manager, and changing all my passwords for everything I could. It was quite a mission, but I think worth it in the end. Now I just remember one password, the rest is handled by lastpass.

I also warned my friends to watch any vids of me sent to them in at their own risk, because there was no ways I was gonna pay whatever they asked :D
 
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